Sentences with phrase «quantum tunneling»

The process, known as quantum tunneling, takes place extremely quickly, making it difficult to confirm whether it takes any time at all.

A spooky phenomenon called quantum tunneling lets particles appear in places where they should not be, as if they had burrowed through the space in between.

Then he recalled Louis de Broglie's discovery that all bodies have a characteristic wavelength which enables them to engage in quantum tunnelling and quantum diffraction.

What is really happening, Turin posited, is that the approximately 350 types of human smell receptors perform an act of quantum tunneling when a new odorant enters the nostril and reaches the olfactory nerve.

They found that during the switching process several thousand atoms move through quantum tunnelling on the timescale on which typically single particles change their position.

We're proud to have combined spectroscopy expertise with the sensitivity of neutrons to identify the intriguing quantum tunnelling phenomenon as a possible mechanism behind the formation of H2; these observations are significant in furthering our understanding of the universe.»

As a mark of just how much the tide has turned, in January 2013, Al - Khalili gave a talk about his ideas on quantum tunneling and DNA mutations at the Royal Institution, London's prestigious scientific establishment.

Experimental evidence for quantum tunneling time.

Although quantum tunneling may seem an esoteric concept, scientists have harnessed it for practical purposes.

Keitel and colleagues tested quantum tunneling by blasting argon and krypton gas with laser pulses.

The researchers structured the device to exploit quantum tunneling, an effect where an electronic potential can pass through a barrier that would ordinarily limit its movement.

This can be achieved with quantum tunnelling», says Van Wees.

A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation).

For example, the already observed quantum tunneling phenomenon, which is pictured in my hypothesis on the origin of the universe like a «crack» on some spot of the false void field, could be happening in the core of our planet and could be affecting our climate more than we think.

Eventually each atom's outermost electron detaches and enters the nanotube through a process called quantum tunnelling.

In quantum tunneling, a particle passes through a barrier despite not having enough energy to cross it.

Dwayne Heard of the University of Leeds, UK, and colleagues suspected the process of quantum tunnelling might kick in.

On a more practical level, the Uncertainty Principle explains numerous real, observed physical effects, such as quantum tunneling.

TIME OUT Electrons can escape their atoms, even if the particles don't have enough energy to do so, through quantum tunneling.

He's a former professor at the School of Engineering and School of Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received the 1973 physics Nobel for his work on quantum tunneling.

This is achieved by the quantum tunneling effect — the ability of an electron to pass through a barrier.

When scientists apply a voltage to the finger, electrons can hop between it and the surface through a process called quantum tunneling.

In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, they show that by using different materials to build a quantum tunneling junction, they were able to alter capacitance by manipulating spins in the opposite way from «normal» magnetocapacitance.

(*) But only up to a certain point: electrodes that are too close are subject to the quantum tunneling effect, and the current between them is no longer controllable.

A strong laser pulse is directed at a molecule, which causes electrons to break away due to the quantum tunneling effect.

Steve: People might not have heard of quantum tunneling and decay.

This effect is the converse of the well - known (if no less astounding) phenomenon of quantum tunneling.

In quantum tunneling, which scientists have known about for some 80 years, a particle passes through a barrier that classical mechanical physics says it shouldn't be able to.

However, if the ferroelectric layer is very thin, electrons can «slip» through with a certain probability, thanks to the quantum tunnelling effect.

At medium voltage and density, some quantum tunneling proceeds; that is, some electron - pairs can leap to the other size.

Another perplexing oddity is known as quantum tunneling: In the microscopic realm, particles can travel across barriers that, in theory, they should not have the energy to get through.

But as the size of modern transistors continues to shrink, the gate material becomes so thin that it can no longer block electrons from leaking through — a phenomenon known as the quantum tunneling effect.

The phenomenon of hopping across seemingly forbidden gaps is called quantum tunneling.

The telltale signature is called a zero - bias peak in a quantum tunneling measurement.

This is a model for the quantum tunneling effect which plays an important role in the performance of modern technologies such as flash memory and scanning tunneling microscopy.

2) Developing a new approach to semi-classical quantum mechanics, capable of providing a precise time - dependent description of quantum processes such as quantum tunnelling, in the small hbar limit.

We thought we could take advantage of something called quantum tunneling.

Expect vehicle - based test chambers, quantum tunneling and patented Aperture technology.