Quantum technologies operate by leveraging various quantum mechanical effects, including entanglement. Entanglement occurs ...

Scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new research.

For the last seven years, the study authors have been studying atomic excitation, a phenomenon that occurs as a result of ...

This is the atomic excitation we alluded to earlier. But the atoms can also de-excite, returning to a ground state. One of the ways this happens is that the energy gets re-emitted as photons.

The study, published in Physical Review Letters, provides definitive proof of a strong collective ‘octupole excitation’ in ... and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus vibrating in a coordinated ...