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ELECTRONIC WAVE PACKAGES. "The experimental generation and observation of the Airy beams of free electrons. These electron Airy beams were generated by diffraction of electrons through a nanoscale hologram, which imprinted on the electrons' wave function a cubic phase modulation in the transverse plane." https://lnkd.in/egyHaVw View in LinkedIn

HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. "No matter how hard you try, you can’t be in two places at once. But if you’re an electron, popping up in multiple places is a way of life...subatomic particles exist in this superposition of states until they are measured and found to be in just one – when their wave function collapses." https://lnkd.in/efzCiyA View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT BEAM ENGINEERING. "One of the prime motivations of intelligent beam engineering is to employ them for various applications in optical trapping and manipulation of microscopic objects. To this end, we demonstrate that such self-accelerating singular beams can be implemented in an optical tweezers’ setting to actively control microparticles." https://lnkd.in/egDgpRF View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF WORLDS? "Quantum superposition states simply break down when a system exceeds a certain size or level of complexity – its wave function is said to "collapse" and the system becomes "decoherent." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

CURVED BEAMS. "In most applications, however, singular beams travel naturally along a straight line, expanding during linear propagation or breaking up in nonlinear media. Here, we design and demonstrate diffraction-resisting singular beams that travel along arbitrary trajectories in space. These curved beams not only maintain an invariant dark “hole” in the center." https://lnkd.in/egDgpRF View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF WORLDS? "Our daily experience suggests that there exists a fundamental boundary between the quantum and classical worlds." https://lnkd.in/ereU_8S View in LinkedIn

IS THE MACRO STATE DIFFERENT? "It is natural to ask why ordinary everyday "real" (macroscopic, Newtonian) objects and events do not seem empirically to display quantum mechanical features such as superposition. Indeed, this is sometimes regarded even as "mysterious", for example by Richard Feynman." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE STATES. "Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. It states that much like waves in classical physics, any two (or more) quantum states can be added together ("superposed") and the result will be another valid quantum state; and conversely, that every quantum state can be represented as a sum of two or more other distinct states." https://lnkd.in/esfdVrj View in LinkedIn

TWO PLACES AT ONCE. "If you’re thinking in terms of particles, it means a particle can be in two places at once. This doesn’t make intuitive sense but it’s one of the weird realities of quantum physics." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn

SIMULTANEOUS EXISTENCE. "Because quantum mechanics is weird, instead of thinking about a particle being in one state or changing between a variety of states, particles are thought of as existing across all the possible states at the same time. It’s a bit like lots of waves overlapping each other. This situation is known as a superposition of states." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn