{"id":221656,"date":"2025-09-10T03:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-demonstrate-controlled-expansion-of-quantum-wavepacket-in-a-levitated-nanoparticle"},"modified":"2025-09-10T03:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:43:35","slug":"physicists-demonstrate-controlled-expansion-of-quantum-wavepacket-in-a-levitated-nanoparticle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/physicists-demonstrate-controlled-expansion-of-quantum-wavepacket-in-a-levitated-nanoparticle","title":{"rendered":"Physicists demonstrate controlled expansion of quantum wavepacket in a levitated nanoparticle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-demonstrate-controlled-expansion-of-quantum-wavepacket-in-a-levitated-nanoparticle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also have wave-like properties. These properties can be represented using the wave function, a mathematical description of quantum systems that delineates a particle\u2019s movements and the probability that it is in a specific position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also have wave-like properties. These properties can be represented using the wave function, a mathematical description of quantum systems that delineates a particle\u2019s movements and the probability that it is in a specific position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}