Researchers have taken atomic diffraction to a new level, revealing surprising behaviors in high-energy helium and hydrogen ...

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Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Dr. Sarbmeet Kanwal plans to discuss how the Horn Antenna in Holmdel led to the Big Bang theory at a talk at the county ...

Summary: Researchers at the University of Ottawa have developed innovative methods to control the ionization of atoms and ...

What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra?

We have demonstrated that by using optical vortex beams—light beams that carry angular momentum—we can precisely control how an electron is ejected from an atom” Ravi Bhardwaj — Full Professor at uOtt ...

Scientist Stephen Jesse will speak Tuesday at Friends of ORNL on "Building Materials and Devices with Atomic Precision: Perils and Promise" ...

By miniaturizing cold atom trapping with integrated photonics, researchers are making quantum technologies portable. Their ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

A new study in Physical Review Letters has used atomic clocks to study relativistic effects in interacting quantum systems.