UVM Physicists (IMAGE)

University of Vermont

UVM Physicists

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University of Vermont professor Dennis Clougherty (right) and his student Nam Dinh wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the vibrating motion of a guitar string in the Newtonian world. They found that the answer is yes—and solved a 90-year-old problem in quantum physics.

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Joshua Brown/University of Vermont

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