A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By reformulating Lamb’s classical model, they showed how atomic vibrations can ...

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- the fundamental impossibility of simultaneously measuring entities such as position and momentum exactly -- is at the heart of quantum theory. Physicists have now ...

It is pointed out that classical statistical mechanics is a field theory with Liouville's equation as its field equation. The statistical mixing of a one-dimensional oscillator is examined and a ...

Inspired by path integral solutions to the quantum relaxation problem, we develop a numerical method to solve classical stochastic differential equations with multiplicative noise that avoids ...

Let us get down to basics. Conceptionally, a ring oscillator is a deceptively simple self-oscillating electronic oscillator that consists of a series of several inverters, where the output of each ...