News tagged with dynamic atomic

Evidence of a new phase in liquid hydrogen

(PhysOrg.com) -- We like to think that we’ve got hydrogen, one of the most basic of elements, figured out. However, hydrogen can still surprise, especially once scientists start probing its properties on the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists learn how to 'out run damage' with imaging technique

Over the decades X-ray crystallography has been fundamental in the development of many scientific fields. The method has revealed the structure and function of many biological molecules, including vitamins, drugs, proteins ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Metadynamics technique offers insight into mineral growth and dissolution

By using a novel technique to better understand mineral growth and dissolution, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving predictions of mineral reactions and laying the groundwork ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neutron scattering provides window into surface interactions

To better understand the fundamental behavior of molecules at surfaces, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining the powers of neutron scattering with chemical analysis.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Squeezed light from single atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics scientists generate amplitude-squeezed light fields using single atoms trapped inside optical cavities.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Water acts as catalyst in explosives

The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Quantum dynamics of matter waves reveal exotic multibody collisions

At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves. Due to interactions between the atoms fundamental quantum dynamics emerge ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Vacuum arcs spark new interest

Whenever two pieces of metal at different voltages are brought near each other, as when an appliance is plugged into a live socket, there is a chance there will be an arc between them. Most of the arcs people ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Extreme imaging wins science praise

A Griffith University PhD candidate has been highly awarded for his innovative image of the shadow of a single atom.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dancing in the dark: scientists shed new light on protein-salt interactions

To study nanostructures in real environments, Berkeley Lab scientists have combined theoretical and experimental approaches to glimpse into a protein’s interaction with simple salts in water. Enabled by x-ray absorption ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A simple quantum dynamics problem?

Research reported in The Journal of Chemical Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, provides the first real-time measurements of the time dependence of the individual steps of dis ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers See Complex Atomic Choreography as Crystals Melt

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conga lines of atoms wend their way through a crystal, their numbers growing as more and more atoms join the migration. The worm-like lines of atoms randomly converge, forming tangles that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Iodate refuses to intimidate

Like a bull in a china shop, a massive, iodine-based ion called iodate should disrupt the surrounding water molecules until it is forcibly expelled. However, it doesn't. This disconnect between the molecule's ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Segregation behaviors and radial distribution of dopant atoms in silicon nanowires

National Institute for Material Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency and University of Tsukuba announced on February 4, 2011 that they succeeded in detecting nondestructively dynamic behaviors of doped impurities ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0