Sentences with phrase «electron shell configuration»

Under the effect of powerful and very short laser pulses, the molecule's electron shell configuration changed: a «hole» appeared — a shell vacancy which then began to oscillate moving from one end of the molecule to the other.

Not exact matches

Motivated by evidence that electrons in groups of aluminum atoms might form closed «shells,» physicists A. Welford Castleman Jr. at Pennsylvania State University and Shiv N. Khanna at Virginia Commonwealth University began searching for stable configurations of these atoms.

The former difference inspires complex vibratory resonances within their molecules when they are struck in radiation - inducing collisions with other molecules, while the latter distinction, that is the «outer electron shell populations, configurations, & «quantum states & propensities,» etc.,» yield (or, should you prefer, «cause») all manner of wildly differing «quantum behaviors.»