Sentences with phrase «behave like particles»

The future of data storage is likely to be found in nanometer scale, stable magnetic whirls called skyrmions, which behave like particles in magnetic thin films.

In other words, photons behave like particles with detectors present and like waves without detectors.

In the electrical currents that flow in the microcircuits of today's gadgets, the electrons behave like particles and follow classical, predictable laws of heat transfer.

In any case, one can not really affirm that light is a wave, since it also behaves like a particle.

«Here we set up a situation where light effectively behaves like a particle in the sense that two photons can interact very strongly,» he said.

This beast, this solitary wave, this soliton, as they called it, was behaving like a particle.»

It made sense only if light behaved like a particle.

Not exact matches

Maybe we have been misinterpreting data all along and it actually is a very even flowing steady state universe with super novas black holes and galaxies coming and going, extending like this throughout all infinity, basically just trading off between nothingness and somethingness with oddly behaving subatomic particles.

We can approach things from both angles and capture a more whole view of a great mystery, rather like light behaving as waves and particles.

CERN Says LHC Really Found Higgs Boson, Will Restart In 2015 Date: June 23, 2014 Source: Newsy / Powered by NewsLook.com Summary: As the LHC's upgrades near completion, a new study on the particle CERN discovered in 2012 shows it behaves just like the theoretical Higgs boson.

No more can one affirm that it is a particle, when it often behaves more like a wave.

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

Light is two - faced: Sometimes it behaves like a wave, sometimes like a particle.

The researchers considered how dark matter would behave if it were like a pared - down version of normal matter, composed of two types of charged particles — a dark proton and a dark electron.

J.J. Thomson's son George also experimented with electrons, and showed that despite his father's proof that they were particles, they also sometimes behaved like waves.

Skyrmions are a type of «quasiparticle,» a disturbance within a material that behaves like a single particle, despite being a collective of many individual particles.

In that case it's going to be a real interesting crisis for theoretical physicists like me, because we've been saying that there has to be something like this in order to explain how the other particles behave and why they have mass.

To meet these requirements, Baum and Morimoto make use of the fact that electrons, as elementary particles, also possess wave - like properties and can behave as so - called wave packets.

The premature bouncing arises because quantum particles behave like waves.

Once absorbed, the radioactive nitrogen emitted bursts of antimatter particles that were detected by phosphor plates, which behave like photosensitive film.

Many models have suggested that the flow of particles from these high - energy collisions should behave like a gas — but in ALICE they acted like a liquid.

She traces those anomalies back to a fraction of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, when our universe was so small that it behaved like a subatomic particle, dominated by quantum physics.

Türeci said that scientists have explored the nature of light for centuries; discovering that sometimes light behaves like a wave and other times like a particle.

And like the well - known quantum behaviour of matter and energy, these bits of space - time would behave more like waves than particles.

Many models have suggested that the flow of particles from these subatomic fireworks produced in high - energy nuclear collisions should behave like a gas and not a liquid.

Because particles also behave like waves, they are smeared out over a distance that decreases with increasing energy — at LHC energies, about 1019 meter.

In the absence of WIMPs, the runners - up are axions, which behave more like an all - encompassing field than single particles.

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.

Quasiparticles are formed from groups of particles in a solid material that collectively behave like a unified particle (SN: 10/18/14, p. 22).

CPT symmetry says that, if you replace the charges with their opposite values, make particles into their mirror images and reverse time, physical laws will look the same — in other words, a «mirror universe» would look and behave just like ours.

To study these interactions, physicists look for differences in the way antimatter and matter behave, using particle accelerators like the RHIC to make antimatter.

«By using ultrafast lasers, which are very intense but very short in duration (of the order of a billion trillion flashes per second), we have realized a world record in optical quality, where all the obtained shaped particles behave like nano - sized clones,» explains Andrés Guerrero Martínez, researcher of the Ramón y Cajal Program at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM.

Sometimes light behaves like a compact particle, a photon; sometimes it seems to behave like a wave spread out in space, just like the ripples in a pond.

Neutrinos, like other subatomic particles, sometimes behave like waves.

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.

Whether one of these strings behaves like a quark or an electron or any other elementary particle depends entirely on how it is vibrating.

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

Sometimes quantum particles behave like waves.

The first is a particle called the unparticle, which behaves like photons (light particles) in some ways, and like particles of matter in others.

When someone watches a subatomic particle or a bit of light pass through the slits, the particle behaves like a bullet, passing through one hole or the other.

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.

Photons of light behave not only like particles but also like waves, producing interference patterns when sent through gratings.

Researchers at Princeton University have detected a unique quantum property of an elusive particle notable for behaving simultaneously like matter and antimatter.

«The quasiparticles they observed are essentially excitations in a material that behave like Majorana particles,» Gratta said.

Scientists have found that the charged particles in graphene behave like a relativistic fluid, meaning graphene - based chips could now be used to model black holes and supernovas or build highly efficient devices that turn heat into electricity.

One of these non-intuitive behaviors is that subatomic particles actually behave more like waves than like discrete particles — a phenomenon called wave - particle duality.

«The Majorana particles show up and behave like halves of an electron, although they aren't pieces of electrons,» said Qing Lin He, a UCLA postdoctoral scholar and co-lead author of the Science paper.

In graphene, however, the electrons» effective mass is zero and they behave like elementary particles obeying a version of Einsteinian relativity, albeit in a realm where the ultimate speed limit is about 800 kilometers per second instead of the usual 300,000 kilometers per second.