Sentences with phrase «behave like atoms»

Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

Quantum computers process information using bits that behave like atoms, so even the slightest disturbance would ruin the process.

We will see these human - sized objects behave like atoms behave and molecules behave, which has never, ever been done before.

Quantum dots behave like atoms, but have more accessible energy levels to conduct electricity, making quantum dots an ideal way to power computers and other electronic devices.

Not exact matches

Quantum dots are semiconductor particles only a few nanometers wide — small enough that they behave like individual atoms.

When a laser beam destroys this order, the iron atoms are brought closer together and begin to behave like magnets,» says HZDR physicist Rantej Bali.

MRIs work by tapping into an astonishing phenomenon: When placed in a powerful magnetic field, the hydrogen atoms in water molecules behave like small bar magnets.

I realized that if scientists could make quantum dots behave like synthetic atoms at room temperature in bulk, it would be possible to create materials whose properties could be adjusted in real time.

Researchers at Washington State University have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom to see a phenomenon predicted 60 years ago and witnessed only once since.

«This large group of atoms does not behave like a bunch of balls in a bucket,» said Engels.

But in rare cases molecules with an even number of electrons can behave like radicals, because the arrangement of their atoms prevents all the electrons from finding partners with which to pair up.

«They behave much like enzymes do in living organisms, breaking down the bonds between carbon and oxygen atoms.

Maybe we should, now that we have a new class of chemical building blocks called superatoms — atomic clusters that behave like individual atoms.

Physicists Moses Chan and Eun - Song Kim of Pennsylvania State University report they have created a supersolid, a frictionless phase of matter in which atoms behave more like a unified wave than separate particles.

In 1995 her colleagues showed that thousands of cold subatomic particles can behave like a single enormous atom, a state called a Bose - Einstein condensate.

Despite existing in a solid and being surrounded by atoms, these electrons can sometimes behave just like free electrons, albeit with an «effective mass» that may be different than the free electron mass.

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, together with colleagues in the US and Australia, have developed a method to control a quantum bit for electronic quantum communication in a series of quantum dots, which behave like artificial atoms in the solid state.

These clouds of atoms behave like waves, interfering similarly to merging water waves.

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Its molecules began to separate into single atoms, while the atoms» electrons began to behave like those of a metal.

A physicist's observations determine whether an atom, say, behaves like a fluid wave or a hard particle, or which path it follows in traveling from one point to another.

As a result, these atoms behave like little bar magnets.

According to quantum theory, an atom behaves like a wave whose length is equal to Planck's constant divided by the particle's momentum.

A material becomes magnetic when most of its atoms — which behave like tiny magnets — point in the same direction.

Scientists thought particle accelerators might be repurposed to churn out X-rays in a way that would behave like a laser — a light beam made by exciting atoms.

BUCKYBALLS — molecules made up of 60 carbon atoms — can behave like waves, blurring the boundary between the everyday world and the realm of quantum mechanics.