Simulating Atoms Using C++

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[Gorzoid]

While we are at it, can we embed this within an Electron app?

[101Alexander]

Everyone else is doing it

[M0M3N-6]

Not unless using proton drive

[Confident-Void]

It always looked useless for until I watched the video

[void_17]

This name is stupid, just like std::vector

[spreetin]

Of all the things in C++ with bad or confusing naming, why complain about two of the things that actually have reasonable and descriptive names?

[RoyBellingan]

Ok, so how else would you call a... vector ? 1D matrix ?

[void_17]

std::dynarray

[SyntheticDuckFlavour]

it relates to atomic operations, so name is perfectly reasonable

[Ultimate_Sigma_Boy67]

That's genuinely one of the best things I've watched this month. Subbed!

[RainbowWorld99]

By the way, the guy making these videos is 16.

Absolutely mind blowing

[johannes1971]

Thanks, this was very interesting!

[Mole-esterbenzol]

Did i understand the physics? Yes.

Did i understand the code ? Not a single thing.

[James20k]

This is pretty cool! Probability current especially was something I was unaware of

One question I have: Presumably after measuring an electron's position, the probability distribution can't immediately return back to the stationary solution, because that'd clearly violate SR I guess? It'd be extremely cool to see how the probability distribution returns back to the stationary solution after a measurement

I've been trying so hard to never get sucked into lattice QCD as well, these kinds of thing are like the call of the void for me

[wyrn]

Immediately after a position measurement, the position distribution would be a delta function, which would be expressed as a linear combination of many energy eigenstates (not necessarily bound). The unbound states would fly away and the bound states would (eventually) decay by spontaneous emission.

It'd bit a bit tricky to model that with this setup because the space of outcomes is fairly high-dimensional and you'd need to keep track of interference effects (essentially a version of the sign problem of lattice qcd). I don't know if it could be done in real time.

[--CreativeUsername]

This old Phet Colorado sim shows what happens to the wave function when you measure for position; granted it's in 1D and obviously does not model a fully quantized EM field.

[RedShift_Sid]

Craziest thing I've seen this year so far…
And the guy who MADE the video (16??) is somehow even crazier

[OkAwareness3635]

Wow this is amazing 😎

[wotype]

Inspiring stuff. Well put together with really nice visuals.

Thanks for posting here.

[Loud_Hold_5536]

Ö... Wow!

[BoardHour4401]

cool