Many of you will remember them from your physics lessons at school: often represented as colourful clouds or balloons, electron orbitals provide information on the whereabouts of the electrons in ...

Yokohama, Japan - YNU researchers resolve the age-old mystery of why silicon cannot replace carbon in organic compounds. A new benchmark quantum chemical calculation of C 2, Si 2, and their hydrides ...

UPTON, NY--A team of scientists has found evidence for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high-temperature superconductors. The findings, described in the journal ...

In the quantum world, objects are described by wave functions. Electrons around a molecule, for example, exist in wavelike orbitals, smeared-out shapes that determine properties such as the electrons' ...

Electrons, the stuff of chemical bonds, zip around at an unimaginably fast time-scale—on the order of attoseconds (10 –18 seconds). The ability to generate and control attosecond pulses of laser light ...

Following chemical reactions in molecules by direct imaging of the outermost electronic structure is one of the ultimate goals of molecular physics and chemistry. In 2004, the pioneering work by ...

For decades, physicists have studied the way an electron ought to bind to a proton, the simplest atomic system. The fascinating patterns of hydrogen orbitals that form at different energy levels are ...

Chemical doping offers promise as a means of tailoring the electrical characteristics of organic molecular compounds. However, unlike for inorganic semiconductors used in electronics applications, ...

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Evidence has been found for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high-temperature superconductors. The findings provide the basis for a unifying description of how ...