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by liuhenry 1866 days ago
Right, quantum jumps as used here is actually a specific technical term. It seems like the parent comment takes it to be a lay analogy, but it’s from a formulation called quantum trajectory theory [1]. Rather, the result is about the electrons in an atom jumping between energy levels and experimentally observing a continuous evolution.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Trajectory_Theory