Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains into the air. Now bring this scene down to the scale of an atom. Can an atom vibrate in the ...
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 ...
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 404-419 (16 pages) This paper considers the asymptotic behavior of the random harmonic oscillator driven by a Markov process with ...