Sentences with phrase «single atoms»

Quantum is a strange twist indeed, but all experiments seem to show in every case and to huge precision that it is what is REALLY happening everywhere in our universe, our Earth, out atmosphere, and even down to single atoms.

The Myth of Monatomic Colloidal Silver - Monatomic colloidal silver is claimed to be colloidal silver that consists of particles that are single atoms of silver suspended in water.

Others refer to colloidal particles as though they are single atoms of silver.

Single atoms of silver can not exist in water without forming larger particles due to the van der Waals» force of mutual attraction.

Actually the term is incorrect because the preponderance of silver in the water is in the form of ionic silver which are single atoms of silver which are missing one electron in the outer ring.

The Silvonic Pro produces a colloidal solution with around 85 % silver ions, single atoms minus an electron, less than 0.0003 microns in diameter (1 micron = 0.001 millimeters).

In close collaboration with our UNSW colleagues, we apply this method to the fabrication of quantum computer devices containing few or single atoms in which single electron spins can be controlled and read - out.

«Single atoms prefer to produce CO, rather than performing the competing HER, because the surface of a bulk metal is very different from individual atoms,» says Stavitski.

Immobilizing single atoms of noble gases at room temperature within a two - dimensional (2D) array of nano - sized cages is both fundamentally interesting and technologically relevant.

«Single atoms are usually unstable and tend to aggregate on the support,» says co-author Dong Su.

Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms.

«Our computer simulations solved this dilemma, showing that the particles on the steps are reduced to single atoms» adds Matteo Farnesi Camellone (CNR - IOM), another author of the study.

«Nanoists» envision global abundance emerging from the manipulation of single atoms and molecules.

The researchers built the device — which uses about one - billionth the electric current needed to power a hair dryer — while exploring how to use quantum dots, which are bits of semiconductor material that act like single atoms, as components for quantum computers.

«We were excited to find that the platinum metal dissolved in copper, just like sugar in hot coffee, all the way down to single atoms.

And single atoms are vulnerable to quantum weirdness.

For the first time ever, scientists of Kiel University have managed to move single atoms vertically inside a crystal.

The team used the set - up to look at the interactions between single atoms, which can behave in a manner analogous to tiny magnets due to a quantum property called spin.

Here, the ability to control the state of single atoms is decisive.

Spiralling electron beams have the potential to measure and manipulate the properties of single atoms.

Simultaneously, the physicists found a method for measuring a transistor - like behaviour of single atoms.

The resolution is so high, that single atoms can be seen.

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

In the next step the sample gets exposed to laser light that excites single atoms to a so - called Rydberg state.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

«Single atoms are usually unstable and tend to aggregate on the support,» added Dong Su, also a CFN scientist and a co-author on the paper.

Verbeeck and his colleagues are testing whether the beam can not only probe but also manipulate single atoms.

In addition to the unique energetic properties of single atoms, the CO2 conversation reaction was facilitated by the interaction of the nickel atoms with a surrounding sheet of graphene.

«Our state - of - art transmission electron microscope is a unique tool to see extremely tiny features, such as single atoms,» said Sooyeon Hwang, a scientist at CFN and a co-author on the paper.

Instead of noble metal nanoparticles, they used single atoms of nickel.

The term state is in quotes, because a wide variety of agents — ranging from single atoms such as xenon to polycyclic hydrocarbons — can produce insensibility to pain and loss of awareness.

Our idea is that to get stronger interactions between single photons and single atoms, we want to reverse whatever the atom does.

In high school, I told a teacher that we could directly image single atoms; she didn't believe me even after I showed her the journal article I saw it in.

«Ruthenium rules for new fuel cells: Project disperses single atoms on graphene to match platinum standard.»

(A more substantial limitation is that handling single atoms requires a fairly sophisticated physics laboratory.)

For that purpose, single atoms are better than clouds of them, says physicist Martin Mücke of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.

So far zero - point energy has only been seen directly in single atoms or small collections of particles.

«We have demonstrated a reconfigurable array of traps for single atoms, where we can prepare up to 50 individual atoms in separate traps deterministically, for future use in quantum information processing, quantum simulations, or precision measurements,» says Vuletic, who is also a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.

If it can be implemented, the work could find use in preparing qubits, which are often single atoms, for use in quantum - information systems by initializing them to a known state.

It's one of the inert gases that normally exist as single atoms.

First author Farina Kindermann and Professor Artur Widera in front of a quantum gas experimental setup for investigations on single atoms.

We can watch single atoms as they wander across the magnetite surface or bond with each other.

DELICATE quantum bits have been stored in single atoms, a feat that could make accessing memory in quantum computersmore convenient.

In Anton Zeilinger's dream world, superfast quantum computers will process data using single atoms instead of silicon chips.

Oleshko hopes to use them in the near future to manipulate single atoms.

Bohn hopes that the research will lead to even smaller sensing technologies that would be built with single atoms or molecules.

The vortex could be shrunk further with a redesigned mask, potentially allowing single atoms to be trapped inside it and moved around to modify nanoscale structures.

This opens up the possibility of constructing extremely sensitive sensors with the ability to detect single atoms with light.

«Smallest Swiss cross: Made of 20 single atoms.»

«We realize a very strong coupling between light in the glass fiber and single atoms that are situated very close to the fiber.»