(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Physicists think that our universe started out as just a lot of quantum fluctuations. That means, if you’re able to calculate wave-function of those quantum fluctuations, you ...

This secret geometry of wave functions went undetected for decades. But when quantum materials began to surprise physicists with inexplicable behaviors, physicists in the 1980s realized that some of ...

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the ...

There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, ...

Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions (PSWFs): Special functions optimised for representing band‐limited signals, providing an orthogonal basis with excellent time–frequency localisation.

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...