Outrageous orbitals: An image of the various photonic orbital shapes observed. (Courtesy: M Kozon et al., Phys. Rev. B 109, 235141, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB ...

By changing the intensity of the current, the team could switch the energy of the last atom’s outermost electron from a lower level to a higher level. Correspondingly, the shape of the orbital ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully mapped the shape of an electron while it moves through a solid. This groundbreaking discovery in quantum physics, led by MIT physicist Riccardo ...

This method allows researchers to create electron vortices with various intensity patterns, such as cloverleaf, spiral, and customized arrow shapes, each carrying the same orbital angular momentum.

The result of the imaging agrees quite well with the shape of the electron orbital computed theoretically. "I was very excited when I saw the experimentally obtained images of molecular orbitals ...

Moreover, an orbital can also be considered a minimal unit of 'shape,' so the orbital state ... of electrons (in other words, from how the electron distribution deviates from spherical symmetry).

This method allows researchers to create electron vortices with various intensity patterns, such as cloverleaf, spiral, and customized arrow shapes, each carrying the same orbital angular momentum.

A valence electron in titanium oxide has been imaged ... Moreover, an orbital can also be considered a minimal unit of "shape," so the orbital state in a solid can be deduced from observing ...