IN some work here on the focusing of rotationally symmetrical electron beams in the energy-range 20–70 volts, we have come across cases of standing-wave patterns in the electron emission from the ...

Electrons are elementary particles -- indivisible, unbreakable. But new research suggests the electron's quantum state -- the electron wave function -- can be separated into many parts. That has some ...

Scientists have proposed a solution to the subatomic stoppage of electron flow due to defects in materials: a novel way to create a more robust electron wave by binding together the electron's ...

(Nanowerk News) One of the most fundamental interactions in physics is that of electrons and light. In an experiment at Goethe University Frankfurt, scientists have now managed to observe what is ...

Physicists from the Canadian Institute for Measurement Standards are the first to measure a quantum mechanical wave function. And it only took 88 years from the formulation of Schroedinger’s equation!

Time mirrors are very cool. They seem a bit magical, undoing the damage that time has done, at least under the right circumstances. For light and for water waves, we know how to make a mirror that ...

Visitors to Saint Paul’s in London are often astonished by the cathedral’s whispering gallery, where words spoken in a whisper along the curving wall of the dome can be heard anywhere along that same ...

One of the most fundamental interactions in physics is that of electrons and light. In an experiment at Goethe University Frankfurt, scientists have now managed to observe what is known as the Kapitza ...

Metallic nanowires show unique physical properties owing to their one-dimensional nature. Many of these unique properties are intimately related to electron–electron interactions, which have a much ...