Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), alongside those from the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and Aalto University in Finland, have announced they have used artificial atoms in ...

The heavy metal uranium is, besides its radioactive reputation, known for its intricate chemistry and diverse bonding behaviors. Scientists utilized synchrotron light to explore the unique properties ...

Why does changing just one proton in the nucleus of an atom create a different element? The number of protons in an atomic nucleus determines the number of electrons needed for a neutral atom, ...

A strong electron–hole exchange interaction (EI) in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) gives rise to a large (up to tens of meV) splitting between optically active ('bright') and optically passive ...

In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure (e.g., a crystal). Like other elementary particles ...

Figure 2: Dependence of spectrally integrated output energy of Kα emission on pump pulse energy. Here, XFEL pumping pulses excite Cu atoms from the ground state to the upper level (single vacancy of ...