A Better Way To Picture Atoms

Thanks to Google for sponsoring a portion of this video! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon: This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender. REFERENCES A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of “Hidden“ Variables. I David Bohm, Physical Review, Vol 85 No. 2, January 15, 1952 Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics J. S. Bell Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution Peter Holland The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to some Simple Systems by Caroline Colijn Bohmian Trajectories as the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics The Pilot-Wave Perspective on Quantum Scattering and Tunneling A Quantum Potential Description of One-Dimensional Time-Dependent Sca