Category: Schrodinger (And His Zombie Cat)

There are very few real-world systems that behave like the simplified mathematical model we used above for a particle in a box. However, recent developments in the nascent field of nanotechnology have made it possible to produce nanostructures of only 2–10 nm in size that exhibit behavior close to the simple particle-in-a-box model we discussed. These tiny structures are…

We learned that |Ψ|2—the square of a system’s wavefunction—is itself a function that gives us the probability of finding a particle at a certain time and position. However, in the simply assigned the fancy symbol |Ψ|2 to the probability of finding a particle at a certain place and at a certain time. For example, in the…