I’ve always wondered — can we see an electron? I dug into the science behind this tiny particle, and it turns out the answer ...

For the lowest-energy state, the probability cloud of an electron looks like a sphere: you’re most likely to find it an intermediate distance away from the proton, but you’ve got a non-zero ...

"Landau levels are sort of akin to the energy levels of electron orbitals around the nucleus of an atom," Rechtsman said.

For example, when sodium loses its one outer electron from the third energy level, the second level becomes the new outer energy level and is full. Since these electrons are closer to the nucleus, ...

Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning ...

In fact sound waves in solids do propagate exactly like this. But remember we’re at the quantum scale here. Those vibrational modes in the crystal are quantized, similar to electron energy levels.

The gap, called a band gap, between the two thresholds contain electron energy levels that simply cannot be occupied in the material. This occurs because of the wave nature of electrons.

First of all, I would like to mention that the electron, being a particle of incredibly low mass (it is even light compared to the proton: four orders of magnitude lighter to be precise), has an ...

The chemical reaction behind corrosion is not well understood on an atomic level, but transmission electron microscopy is bringing new insights.

Vaishnav and Clark's proposal begins with an atom--rubidium-87 is an example--that has a 'tripod' arrangement of electron energy levels, consisting of one higher energy level above three equal ...

The resulting electron dance acts like an internal magnetic field — a substitute for an external field that pushes electron energy levels apart. Jennifer Cano, a condensed matter physicist at Stony ...

In devices like the single-electron transistor the detailed transport properties of a nanostructure can be measured by tuning its energy levels with a gate voltage.