Although the Schrödinger equation was published in 1926, the authors of a new study explain that the equation's origins are still not fully appreciated by many physicists.

Moreover, the Schrödinger equation is far from all-powerful. Although it does a great job modeling a hydrogen atom, the Schrödinger equation can’t yield an exact description of a helium atom !

The end result is a very ‘crisp’ image of a hydrogen atom’s wave function magnified more than 20,000 times. Per the image release, in the image on the left, we see examples of four atomic ...

Scientists have captured the first ever photo of an electron’s whizzing orbit within a hydrogen atom, thanks to a unique new microscopy technique. Seeing inside the tiniest bits of matter is a ...

The same is not true, however, for solutions to the Dirac equation, the relativistic equation describing the hydrogen atom. Solutions expressed in terms of Laguerre polynomials were found shortly ...