Scientists from MIT have modeled an elusive superconductor using a much larger stand-in. By shaping atoms with lasers and ...

When atoms are put together to form a three-dimensional substance, the properties of the substance are governed by how quantum clouds of electrons, the orbitals, move around and interact with each ...

In school, you probably learned that an atom was like a little solar system with the nucleus as the sun and electrons as the planets. The problem is, as [The Action Lab] points out, the math tells ...

Rice University researchers found that localized electrons drive magnetism in iron-tin thin films, reshaping theories on ...

Study at Rice University reveals localized electrons than mobile electrons, drive magnetism in kagome magnets, specifically ...

The motion of the selenium atoms (red) changes the energy of the electron orbitals of the iron atoms (blue), and the resulting electron vibrations are recorded separately with a technique called ...

A discovery by Rice University physicists and collaborators is unlocking a new understanding of magnetism and electronic ...

These quantum numbers and rules simply determine the number of electron orbitals and the allowed occupancy of each orbital. Imagine a New Universe – let’s call it Joetopia – where there are different ...

Researchers uncover novel magnetic and electronic properties in thin films of kagome magnets. Physicists at Rice University and their collaborators have made a discovery that sheds new light on ...

The study also revealed that some electron orbitals showed stronger interactions than others, a phenomenon known as selective band renormalization previously observed in iron-based superconductors, ...

Owing to the confinement, the electron motion is quantized, and because QDs can be incorporated into large semiconductor devices, they can in principle be easily addressed through external fields.