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 ...

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 ...

The solution to the damped quantum harmonic oscillator might sound abstract, but its implications reach far. One direct outcome of this work is the possibility of measuring position at scales ...

In a study published July 7th, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, University of Vermont researchers discovered a ...

In a study published July 7, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, he and Dinh did just that: found an exact solution to a model that behaves as a “damped quantum harmonic oscillator ...

A quantum harmonic oscillator—a structure that can control the location and energy of quantum particles that could, in the future, be used to develop new technologies including OLEDs and ...

A large part of the business of doing quantum physics on a practical level turns out to consist of finding ways to make other systems look like (in a mathematical sense) a quantum harmonic oscillator.

In work published in Physical Review Research, they present an exact solution for what they call a “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” essentially the atomic-scale equivalent of a slowly ...