Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 04:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Electrons are elementary particles -- indivisible, unbreakable. But new research suggests the electron's quantum state -- the electron wave function -- can be separated into many parts. That has some strange implications for the theory of quantum mechanics.

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