Scientists have long used Gaussian beams to study how light interacts with matter. These beams resemble plane waves and rely ...

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For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and ...

By miniaturizing cold atom trapping with integrated photonics, researchers are making quantum technologies portable. Their ...

Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton's inner ...

Laser light nudges ultracold rubidium atoms, triggering atomic collisions and revealing surprising quantum effects and energy ...

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, ...

Among various types of atomic magnetometers, the single-beam spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer exhibits the most promise for miniaturization. Moreover, combined with the gradient ...

The device, specially designed to study the properties and structural appearance of atomic nuclei, allowed Henderson and his colleagues to bombard lead atoms with particle beams moving at exceptional ...