I guess I’m kind of confused on what the discovery is; we have a quantum system evolving unitarily from one state at t_0 to another state at t, and the probability of measuring the system in one of two discrete states changes continuously as well (despite the actual measurement outcome being discrete). I thought this has been known for a long time, implied by the time dependent Schrodinger equation, so I didn’t quite catch from the Quanta article what is new, mathematically. Can anyone clarify?
> I didn’t quite catch from the Quanta article what is new, mathematically
Nothing is new. This experiment is simply confirming a prediction of standard QM. All the talk about "quantum jumps" and how something has supposedly changed about the way we understand them is just pop science reporters misunderstanding the actual science.
