Another frontier pursued by cutting edge research here is the crafting of atom-light interactions so precise that a new generation of atomic clocks can be envisioned, whose accuracy approaches 1 ...

The electron and proton are attracted to each other. This attraction holds the atom together. It is not possible to locate the exact position of an electron, but the electron cloud shows the region ...

When two hydrogen atoms get close enough, the electron from each atom feels an attraction from the proton in the other atom's nucleus. This attraction pulls the atoms together. The electrons end up ...

The interatomic potential describes the interaction between a pair of atoms or the interaction of an atom with a group of atoms in a condensed phase. The potential must have both an attractive and a ...

This means that their resulting interaction with matter (i.e. groupings of atoms) is significantly more complicated, often resulting in the photonic energy getting absorbed by an atom, boosting ...

Alfonso Lanuza, Study Co-Author and Former Ph.D. Student, Stone Brook University Despite the complex photon-atom interaction, he was able to find mathematical solutions for two emitters with up to ...

For instance, there is a weak connection between the nucleus and the orbiting electrons of an atom called the hyperfine ...