electron
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To test that possibility, the researchers created nanoscale versions of the pattern on silicon nitride films using electron beam lithography.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
That could allow scientists to recover useful details that would be impossible to identify using ordinary electron counting alone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
After one electron interacts with the trapped ion, another electron can pass through and become entangled with the quantum computer as well.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Yet each electron also carries quantum information that normally goes unused.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The laws of quantum mechanics treat particles such as the electron as points; that is, they take up no space at all.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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The issue centers on the inductive effect, a fundamental idea in structural organic chemistry used to describe how atoms influence the distribution of electrons within molecules.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
In a standard system, electrons are mainly counted to build an image.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
One possibility involved many-body effects produced by collective interactions among numerous electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
That result was surprising because, beyond the quantum limit, electrons should be restricted to the lowest Landau level.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
But if a radioactive particle or wave has enough energy, it can knock electrons out of an atom altogether, creating an ion.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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