Erwin Schrödinger introduced the idea of wave packets just after publishing his famous wave equation. He solved his wave equation for a quantum harmonic oscillator, introduced the superposition principle, and used it to show that a compact state could persist. While this work did result in the important concept of coherent states, the wave packet concept did not endure. The year after Schrödinger's paper, Werner Heisenberg published his paper on the uncertainty principle, showing in the process, that Schrödinger's results only applied to quantum harmonic oscillators, not for example to Coulomb potential characteristic of atoms.