A rare and bewildering intermediate between crystal and glass can be the most stable arrangement for some combinations of ...

A century ago, Niels Bohr married the old standard physics with the new quantum theory, giving birth to the modern model of the atom’s structure ... with the ordinary mechanical laws of ...

But by sending lots of kids ... quantum mechanics. We’ve seen what some of the harmonics of an electron in a hydrogen trap look like. In principle, given the number of protons and electrons in ...

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ... which required the development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. Even in its preliminary state, the model is good enough ...

Physicists describe the microscopic world using a weird theory called quantum mechanics. The year 2025 is the International Year of ...

For me, like many physicists, that list includes quantum mechanics ... nucleus at the center of the atom, and introduced the solar-system model of an atom that kids learn in grade school these ...

In Part-I you got to learn about atom and its subatomic particles, Rutherford’s nuclear model of atom, Thomson’s model of atom, electromagnetic radiations and electromagnetic spectrum.

preventing the instabilities that had plagued previous mechanical models of atoms. This special issue of Nature explores the origin and legacy of Bohr's quantum atom, a model that has resonated ...

"Many properties of natural materials governed by the laws of quantum mechanics are very difficult to model using conventional computers. The key concept in quantum simulation is building a ...

When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations ... demonstrates we can also model how those molecules change over time. We experimentally simulated ...