What’s the safest place to store important information? No, it’s not your external hard drive or some secret cloud application. Some researchers believe that when it comes to storing quantum ...

Researchers have been able to initiate a controlled movement in the very heart of an atom. They caused the atomic nucleus to interact with one of the electrons in the outermost shells of the atom.

Formed from a cluster of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, a nucleus is 10,000 times smaller than the atom as a whole, "like a fly in a cathedral," said David Jenkins, a nuclear ...

much-maligned Bohr model of the atom. That's the one where electrons move about the atomic nucleus in circular orbits, like planets orbiting the Sun in our Solar System. The orbits have set ...

Protons are tiny subatomic particles that, along with neutrons, form the nucleus of an atom. The heavier the atom, the more protons (and neutrons) it contains. Hydrogen, which is the lightest ...

It also tells us that chlorine has 18 neutrons (35 - 17) and, as the number of electrons and protons are equal in a neutral atom, chlorine also has 17 electrons. The relative mass of a nucleus is ...

After all, as particle physicist Dr Harry Cliff put it, even the term "splitting the atom" is "problematic". Atoms are the building blocks of all matter and are made up of a nucleus and a number ...

More information: Lukas M. Veldman et al, Coherent spin dynamics between electron and nucleus within a single atom, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52270-0 Provided by Delft ...