But an engineered and controlled collection, a «quantum many - body system,» arranges all
its atoms in a particular pattern, or correlation, to create the lowest overall energy state.
Not exact matches
The unique structure of any crystal is the result of what we might think of as the «shape» of its
atoms (or ions), which causes them to slot into a
particular position and to layer themselves
in a fixed, orderly
pattern.
For example, what must be the nature of physical existents such that the composite, the molecule of water, not only consists of one oxygen
atom and two hydrogen
atoms, but that they are at a
particular distance from each other and
in a
particular three - dimensional
pattern?
«Within the clusters of
atoms that make up a metallic glass,
atoms are arranged
in a
particular kind of fractal
pattern called percolation,» Chen says.