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SUBMITTER: Saenz PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7228752 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sáenz Pedro J PJ Cristea-Platon Tudor T Bush John W M JWM
Science advances 20200515 20
We present a macroscopic analog of an open quantum system, achieved with a classical pilot-wave system. Friedel oscillations are the angstrom-scale statistical signature of an impurity on a metal surface, concentric circular modulations in the probability density function of the surrounding electron sea. We consider a millimetric drop, propelled by its own wave field along the surface of a vibrating liquid bath, interacting with a submerged circular well. An ensemble of drop trajectories display ...[more]