Scientists probe electronic angular momentum to a chemical reaction for the first time
Credit: DICP A chemical reaction can be understood in detail at the quantum state-resolved level, through a combined study of ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
Theory could accelerate push for spintronic devices
Rice University models help ID materials for advanced electronics, computer memoriesCredit: Sunny Gupta/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 25, 2021) - ...
Twin atoms: A source for entangled particles
Quantum experiments that could previously only be performed with photons are now also possible with atoms: Beams of entangled atoms ...
Atomic nuclei in the quantum swing
The extremely precise control of nuclear excitations opens up possibilities of ultra-precise atomic clocks and powerful nuclear batteriesCredit: MPI for ...
Investigating the wave properties of matter with vibrating molecules
Physics: Publication in Nature PhysicsCredit: HHU / Soroosh Alighanbari Almost 100 years ago, a revolutionary discovery was made in the ...
Moiré patterns facilitate discovery of novel insulating phases
UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on stacked monolayers of 2D semiconductorsCredit: Microwave Nano-Electronics Lab, UC ...
New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications A novel computer algorithm, or set of rules, that accurately predicts the ...
A new quantum switch for electronics
Credit: Oleg Lychkovskiy A Russian physicist and his international colleagues studied a quantum point contact (QCP) between two conductors with ...
Scientists discovered new physical effects important for the ITER reactor operation
Researchers discovered new effects, which affect the energy flow in the reactorCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University The energy ...
Quantum causal loops
Credit: @ULB Causal reasoning is ubiquitous - from physics to medicine, economics and social sciences, as well as in everyday ...
Charge radii of exotic potassium isotopes challenge nuclear structure theory
Credit: CERN In nuclear physics so-called magic number are such nuclear proton and/or neutron numbers, for which the nucleus is ...
Researchers from NUS create ‘whirling’ nano-structures in anti-ferromagnets
Credit: R. Shetty, K. Jani, H.Jani. Today's digital world generates vast amounts of data every second. Hence, there is a ...
“Ghost particle” ML model permits full quantum description of the solvated electron
Credit: @Vladimir Rybkin The behavior of the solvated electron e-aq has fundamental implications for electrochemistry, photochemistry, high-energy chemistry, as well ...
Solving complex physics problems at lightning speed
Credit: Illustration: Andreas Ekström and Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to ...
New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares
Credit: Elle Starkman (PPPL Office of Communications) and ITER A new type of rocket thruster that could take humankind to ...
Size of helium nucleus measured more precisely than ever before
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer In experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, an international research collaboration has measured the ...
First direct band gap measurements of wide-gap hydrogen using inelastic X-ray scattering
Credit: Bing Li Utilizing a newly developed state-of-the-art synchrotron technique, a group of scientists led by Dr. Ho-kwang Mao, Director ...
White turns into (extreme-)ultraviolet
Credit: Copyright: MBI Researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have developed a ...
Crystal structures in super slow motion
Physicists from Göttingen first to succeed in filming a phase transition with extremely high spatial and temporal resolutionCredit: Dr Murat ...
Electrons caught in the act
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba combine scanning tunneling microscopy with ultrafast spectroscopy to image the motion of electrons with ...
