quantum physics

‘Check your ingredients’: A new blueprint for using Fermi’s ‘Golden Rule’

Yale.edu·July 9, 2026

Fermi’s “Golden Rule” is a formula that connects theoretical quantum mechanics and what scientists observe in experiments, yet it is often misapplied. A new study by Yale physicists put this foundational formula through its paces.

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