Electrons can freeze into strange geometric crystals and then melt back into liquid-like motion under the right quantum ...

Using three of the world’s most powerful supercomputers — Aurora at Argonne, Frontier at Oak Ridge, and Perlmutter at Berkeley Lab — the researchers have achieved unprecedented precision in modeling ...

Superconductivity occurs when electrons in a metal pair up and move through the material without resistance. But there may be more to the story than we thought, as scientists in Germany have now ...

When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs a trembling motion at the frequency of the light field.

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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new theoretical framework that could dramatically ...

Measuring up: an electron scattering experiment yields a small proton radius. (Courtesy: Jefferson Lab) For nearly a decade the size of the particle that makes up the bulk of the universe’s visible ...

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Physicists are closer to finding out if the electron is a point charge or whether it has an internal distribution of charge known as an electric dipole moment. For the first time, Ed Hinds and ...

Scientists have made the most precise measurement yet of the electron's atomic mass. "It is a major technical improvement," said Edmund Myers, a physicist at Florida State University, who wrote an ...