That blue, pixelated image, ladies and gentlemen, is the very first image of an atom’s electron orbital structure. In other words, you’re looking at the first picture of an atom’s wave function.

Physicists from the Canadian Institute for Measurement Standards are the first to measure a quantum mechanical wave function. And it only took 88 years from the formulation of Schroedinger’s equation!

Understanding the structure of the wavefunction is essential for depicting the surface states of a topological insulator. Owing to the inherent strong spin–orbit coupling, the conventional hand-waving ...

S. F. Boys, Electronic Wave Functions. I. A General Method of Calculation for the Stationary States of Any Molecular System, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and ...

Study of Exotic Ions in Superfluid Helium and the Possible Fission of the Electron Wave Function. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2014; DOI: 10.1007/s10909-014-1224-3 ...

A general variation method is developed for determining: (a) the magnetic shielding of nuclear spin-spin interactions in molecules; (b) the electron-coupled nuclear spin-spin interactions in molecules ...