{"id":3921471,"date":"2025-08-15T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-solve-90-year-old-puzzle-of-quantum-damped-harmonic-oscillators\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:03:14","slug":"physicists-solve-90-year-old-puzzle-of-quantum-damped-harmonic-oscillators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-solve-90-year-old-puzzle-of-quantum-damped-harmonic-oscillators\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists solve 90-year-old puzzle of quantum damped harmonic oscillators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call &#8220;damped harmonic oscillators&#8221; and are well understood in terms of Newton&#8217;s laws of motion.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-physicists-year-puzzle-quantum-damped.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call &#8220;damped harmonic oscillators&#8221; and are well understood in terms of Newton&#8217;s laws of motion. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}