By 1926 he published his work, providing a theoretical basis for the atomic model that Niels Bohr had proposed based on laboratory evidence. The equation at the heart of his publication became ...

In atomic and molecular physics ... particularly through the use of scaling functions and the free complement (FC) theory. One significant area of recent research involves the development of ...

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This long-lived Schrödinger-cat state paves a new way for atomic magnetometry, quantum computations, and the exploration of new physics beyond the Standard Model. More information: Y. A.

Devised in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, this thought experiment was designed to shine a spotlight on the difficulty with interpreting quantum theory. Quantum theory is very ...

the very night he arrived in Oxford as a war refugee he learned that he and Dirac together had won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.” ...