A team of physicists has shown that pairs of helium atoms, chilled to near absolute zero and launched into each other, can ...
Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...
For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades ...
A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...
A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...
This demanding experiment is only possible with the help of PSI's proton accelerator facility. There Aldo Antognini's team generates so-called muonic helium-3, in which the two electrons of the helium ...
While probing single molecules or atoms typically requires liquid helium—a costly resource—to build a stable environment, a new development from a joint Chinese research team changes the game. By ...
The challenge: seeing atoms without freezing the budgetOptical-coupled scanning probe microscopes (OC-SPM) can visualize individual atoms and probe ...
The diamond anvil crushed iron and helium together under conditions mimicking those inside the Earth, to create a new compound. These compounds remained stable when pressures were reduced. Further ...