Chaos on the Quantum Scale

By Mason Alexander Porter, Richard Liboff

Simulations of atomic-scale billiards reveal chaotic phenomena that expand theory and applications, especially in nanotechnology

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November-December 2001

Volume 89, Number 6
Page 532

DOI: 10.1511/2001.40.532

During the 20th century, two new ways of describing physical systems emerged to thwart scientists' hopes of ever completely predicting nature's behavior.

Photomicrograph courtesy of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization

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