As Above, So Below: Asteroid Motion on an Atomic Scale

Physics stories often highlight the strangeness of the quantum realm in comparison to our everyday world, the difference between what we experience and what happens at the nano-scale. Sometimes, though, you can gain more insight by focusing on the similarities between two situations than on their differences.That's the case in new research that draws on the classical description of an asteroid orbiting the Earth to better understand a complicated quantum system. The work was recently published i...