A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

University of Vermont professor Dennis Clougherty (right) and his student Nam Dinh wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the vibrating motion of a guitar string in the ...

In a study published July 7 th, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, University of Vermont researchers discovered a precise solution to a model that acts as a “damped quantum harmonic ...

The hashtag makes clear that this was a reference to the show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which isn't something I watch regularly. It seems that in last week's episode, a particular magic sound ...

Exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation have long provided fundamental insights into quantum mechanics by furnishing explicit analytical expressions for wave functions and energy spectra. These ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...