Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.
Now, in a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, Rey and JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson, along with ...
The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the ...
“Despite the atoms' high kinetic energy and coupling to the electronic system of graphene, we observe diffraction patterns featuring coherent scattering of up to eight reciprocal lattice vector ...
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that if you took a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice—a 2D crystal called graphene ...
The decisive factor is often the arrangement of the molecules in the atomic lattice structure or on the surface of the material. Materials science utilises this factor to create certain properties by ...
It remains unclear whether boiling metal surfaces can still show surface tension, says Prof Dr-Ing. Jörg Volpp, Associate ...
However, in reality, these atoms can randomly swap places within the crystal lattice, meaning some sites that were supposed to have copper atoms might have zinc atoms, and vice versa. This ...
To address this challenge, the research team first trapped 173 Yb atoms with a spin of 5/2 in an optical lattice. By controlling laser pulses to induce nonlinear light shifts in the ground states ...