The phrase
"individual electrons" refers to single electric particles that are very tiny and exist in their own separate units.
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Collaborating with Mahesh Neupane, a computational physicist at Army Research Laboratories, and Dennis Nordlund, an X-ray spectroscopy expert at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Monti's team used a tunable, high - intensity X-ray source to excite
individual electrons in their test samples and elevate them to very high energy levels.
This dye emits a phosphorescent glow when exposed to a monochromatic LED light source, which
excites individual electrons and raises them to a higher energy level.
According to Dr Frankcombe, «this work demonstrates that these classical, intuitive ideas of
individual electron movements have been the right way to look at chemical reactivity all along, even though they previously had little support from quantum mechanics.»
Spin is a particle's intrinsic angular momentum, and is normally carried in non-superconducting, non-magnetic materials
by individual electrons.
To do this research, the team had to overcome a hurdle that never had been cleared before: figure out a way to «watch»
individual electrons as they flow through the crystals.
Utilizing electrons on a liquid helium surface for quantum computing requires
isolating individual electrons on a helium surface and controlling their quantum degrees of freedom, either motional or spin.
Once the researchers turned the detector on, they were able to
record individual electrons within the first 100 milliseconds of the experiment — although the analysis took a bit longer.
This operates on raw data, rather than secondary science products, by
returning individual electrons to pixels from which they were unintentionally dragged during readout.
Magnets, often used in our daily life, exert a magnetic force produced by a large number of microscopic magnets — the spins
of individual electrons — that are aligned in the same orientation.
Not only is it clear that in principle man can never predict the behavior of
individual electrons, it is also clear that the reason for the success of his predictions when he deals with larger entities is that so many of the ultimate actual entities are involved.
What's important are not
the individual electrons or radio waves that get transmitted from your computer but the pattern of bits they describe.
Normal metals transport heat efficiently because there are so many different possible microscopic configurations that
the individual electrons can jump between.
In ordinary magnets, both
individual electron spins and the motion of electrons in their atomic orbitals generate magnetic fields.
The temperature was down at around a fifteen thousandth of a degree above absolute zero (i.e. at minus 273.135 °C or 15 mK) before the scientists saw that the electric current consists of
individual electrons.
Genoium is a man - made atom, created at liquid - helium temperature in ultrahigh vacuum from
an individual electron in magnetic and electric trapping fields.
What that means is that
the individual electrons always move at a constant velocity,» explains Ham.
«Many things are rooted in the interactions of
individual electrons, but we handle them as a collective thing.
The velocity of
the individual electrons still remains constant, but collectively, they accelerate and their total energy increases — just like entities with mass.
«Measuring the mass of «massless» electrons:
Individual electrons in graphene are massless, but apparently not when they move together.»
The team worked with researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Washington, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and elsewhere to record the activity of more than 100,000
individual electrons in krypton gas.
«The properties of
individual electrons have been known for many years, but when they get together as a group they do bizarre things» — much like stock traders, who have more in common with quarks and gluons than you might think.
But it is extremely hard to watch
the individual electrons which make up this current.
The breakthrough could lead to powerful quantum computers that store and manipulate data in the spin of
individual electrons.
In the same Cambridge laboratory in the United Kingdom where the British physicist J.J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, European scientists have just developed a new ultra-sensitive electrical - charge sensor capable of detecting the movement of
individual electrons.
«We have called it a gate sensor because, as well as detecting the movement of
individual electrons, the device is able to control its flow as if it were an electronic gate which opens and closes,» explains González Zalba.
Today, researchers can detect the charge and spin of
individual electrons and image catalytic reactions that occur within tens of femtoseconds.