video thumbnail 5:35
A Better Way To Picture Atoms

2021-05-19

[public] 1.38M views, 249K likes, 2.34K dislikes audio only

channel thumbminutephysics
3072×1728

Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video!

Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics

This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender.

REFERENCES

A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables. I

David Bohm, Physical Review, Vol 85 No. 2, January 15, 1952

Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics

J. S. Bell

Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution

Peter Holland

The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to some Simple Systems by Caroline Colijn

Bohmian Trajectories as the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2666v1

The Pilot-Wave Perspective on Quantum Scattering and Tunneling

http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7265v2

A Quantum Potential Description of One-Dimensional Time-Dependent Scattering From Square Barriers and Square Wells

Dewdney, Foundations of Physics, VoL 12, No. 1, 1982

Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/

MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysics

And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics

Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!

Created by Henry Reich


Atomic Orbitals
/youtube/video/W2Xb2GFK2yc?t=10.139
Wave Particle Duality
/youtube/video/W2Xb2GFK2yc?t=114.46
Rainbow Donuts
/youtube/video/W2Xb2GFK2yc?t=321.57999
Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! patreon.com
http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics
minutephysics Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ~Rutherford via Einstein? (wikiquote) Created by Henry Reich
/youtube/channel/UCUHW94eEFW7hkUMVaZz4eDg
How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained 2,938,460 views
/youtube/video/lvTqbM5Dq4Q