Transition metals and non-ferrous metals such as copper, nickel and cobalt are not only suitable as materials in engineering and technology, but also for a wide range of applications in ...

IntroductionLast time, we introduced the Hohenberg–Kohn theorem, which is the starting point of Density Functional Theory ...

A new study found that orbital ordering in a vanadate compound exhibits a clear nucleation-growth behavior. Their observation is the first of its kind, where electrons in an inorganic solid created ...

For decades, chemists have chased a deceptively simple dream: a molecule that spins in only one direction, like a microscopic ...

The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and a team of U.S. researchers have theoretically demonstrated that a helical nanowire, twisted like a screw, can function as a ‘quantum ...

The new study -- led by Feng Liu, a professor of materials science and engineering -- supports a controversial 2000 study by German physicist Franz Giessibl, who claimed he was able to use an atomic ...

Atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum to electrons in a non-magnetic material. (Nanowerk News) To keep up with today’s computing needs, researchers mine the quantum realm to find ...

Two shaped laser pulses opened new electron excitation pathways and tracked rapid quantum dynamics in potassium atoms.

An electron microscope can now distinguish, at the scale of columns of atoms, how certain electrons are distributed around them. To understand this result, we need to forget the image of electrons ...

What are high-energy electrons doing at the target?In "Chapter 5," we looked at how electrons that have exited the ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. A viable alternative to these methods is available in optics and relies on transforming an OAM-carrying photon’s azimuthal phase variations ...