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 ...

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 ...

In some early experiments 12,13,14,15 attempts were made to measure the deflection of free electrons due to a light wave. Two experiments reported an effect 12,13, while two others did not 14,15.

The particle-wave nature of light has fascinated researchers for more than 200 years, but a new experiment has allowed researchers to visualize it like never before. This image was taken by turning an ...

(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 ...

Charges are accelerated away from each other by the fluctuating electric field from a terahertz laser. (Courtesy: Brian Long) Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the US ...

It may not have won an Oscar, but the tiny electron has finally made its film debut. A new video shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is ...

While studying the behavior of electrons in iron-based superconducting materials, researchers at the University of Tokyo observed a strange signal relating to the way electrons are arranged. The ...

Information technologies of the future will likely use electron spin -- rather than electron charge -- to carry information. But first, scientists need to better understand how to control spin and ...