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  1. Atomic physics is the scientific study of the atom as an isolated system comprising electrons and an atomic nucleus, focusing primarily on the arrangement of electrons around the nucleus and the processes by which these configurations change.
    #AtomicPhysics #Physics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/11/cat11102603

  2. Forbidden molecular vibrations are highly improbable quantum jumps between the internal energy levels of a molecule. Although these transitions are remarkably weak, their exceptionally well-defined frequencies make them ideal for ultra-precise quantum measurements.
    #QuantumChemistry #MolecularPhysics #QuantumMetrology #Spectroscopy #AtomicPhysics #OpticalPhysics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/11/qs11102601.

  3. Scientists Watch New Particles “Pop Into Existence” on a Quantum Computer

    Researchers have observed string-breaking dynamics on a quantum simulator that could help probe questions related to the Big…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CA #Canada #DukeUniversity #particlephysics #QuantumComputing #Quantumphysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/917274/

  4. Scientists Watch New Particles “Pop Into Existence” on a Quantum Computer

    Researchers have observed string-breaking dynamics on a quantum simulator that could help probe questions related to the Big…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #DukeUniversity #particlephysics #QuantumComputing #QuantumPhysics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/789050/

  5. Scientists Watch New Particles “Pop Into Existence” on a Quantum Computer

    Researchers have observed string-breaking dynamics on a quantum simulator that could help probe questions related to the Big…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #AtomicPhysics #DukeUniversity #PARTICLEPHYSICS #Quantumcomputing #QuantumPhysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/867615/

  6. Physicists Tackle a Classic Quantum Problem With a Powerful New Computational Method

    An AI-generated illustration depicting the Kondo effect. Conducting electrons in a metal are shown interacting with the spin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CA #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #Canada #MaterialsScience #quantummaterials #Quantumphysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/909153/

  7. Physicists Tackle a Classic Quantum Problem With a Powerful New Computational Method

    An AI-generated illustration depicting the Kondo effect. Conducting electrons in a metal are shown interacting with the spin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #Materialsscience #quantummaterials #QuantumPhysics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/781146/

  8. Physicists Tackle a Classic Quantum Problem With a Powerful New Computational Method

    An AI-generated illustration depicting the Kondo effect. Conducting electrons in a metal are shown interacting with the spin…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #MaterialsScience #quantummaterials #QuantumPhysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/859037/

  9. Physicists Tackle a Classic Quantum Problem With a Powerful New Computational Method

    An AI-generated illustration depicting the Kondo effect. Conducting electrons in a metal are shown interacting with the spin…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #AU #Australia #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #MaterialsScience #quantummaterials #QuantumPhysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/903574/

  10. Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test

    A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #generalrelativity #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityofOxford
    newsbeep.com/uk/773215/

  11. Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test

    A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #AU #Australia #generalrelativity #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Science #UniversityofOxford
    newsbeep.com/au/894868/

  12. Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test

    A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #AtomicPhysics #GeneralRelativity #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Science #UniversityofOxford
    newsbeep.com/us/850509/

  13. Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test

    A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CA #Canada #generalrelativity #QuantumMechanics #Quantumphysics #Science #UniversityofOxford
    newsbeep.com/ca/898648/

  14. Mysterious Gamma Rays Reveal Hidden Magnetism Inside Atomic Nuclei

    New results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #AU #Australia #DOE #GammaRay #LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/894042/

  15. Mysterious Gamma Rays Reveal Hidden Magnetism Inside Atomic Nuclei

    New results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CA #Canada #DOE #GammaRay #LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/897898/

  16. Mysterious Gamma Rays Reveal Hidden Magnetism Inside Atomic Nuclei

    New results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #AtomicPhysics #DOE #GammaRay #LawrenceLivermoreNationalLaboratory #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/849719/

  17. Bethe strings are multi-particle bound states that form in specific one-dimensional quantum systems. They arise purely from the interactions between particles rather than from traditional chemical bonds.
    #QuantumPhysics #AtomicPhysics #CondensedMatterPhysics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/09/qs09142601.

  18. Quantum Simulators Put a 40-Year-Old Physics Theory to the Test

    This AI image shows a chain of strontium atoms (orange), each held in an optical tweezer (blue cones).…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #CA #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #Canada #QuantumComputing #QuantumMechanics #Quantumphysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/875889/

  19. Quantum Simulators Put a 40-Year-Old Physics Theory to the Test

    This AI image shows a chain of strontium atoms (orange), each held in an optical tweezer (blue cones).…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #AtomicPhysics #AU #Australia #CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology #quantumcomputing #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Science
    newsbeep.com/au/872652/

  20. Researchers have discovered a mechanism to overcome the traditional energy limit (the energy cutoff) in X-ray production by using helium atoms irradiated with intense ultraviolet (UV) lasers. In this process, two quantum-mechanically correlated electrons recombine with an ion simultaneously, releasing their combined energy as a single, higher-energy X-ray photon.
    #Physics #QuantumOptics #Photonics #AtomicPhysics #QuantumMechanics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/phy08272601

  21. The optical Magnus effect is a physical phenomenon where the point of maximum interaction between a tightly focused laser beam and a single ion is shifted sideways from the beam's center.
    #QuantumPhysics #Optics #AtomicPhysics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/qs08272601.

  22. Researchers have successfully used high-resolution laser spectroscopy to measure the hyperfine structure of fermium-255, identifying its highly deformed, prolate (rugby ball-like) shape and precise magnetic dipole moment.
    #NuclearPhysics #AtomicPhysics #Radiochemistry #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/08/phy08102601

  23. Researchers at Uppsala University have determined that the Sun contains 55 percent more silver than previously estimated, bringing its composition into alignment with chemically primitive meteorites.
    #StellarAstrophysics #Astronomy #AtomicPhysics #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/07/asph0720260

  24. Helion Energy is building a fusion power plant. Can its technology deliver? Via @scientific_american #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #NuclearEnergy ⚛️ #RenewableEnergy ♻️⚡🌎

    A Sam Altman–backed start-up s...

  25. MatterChat: Bridging the Gap Between Atomic Structures and Large Language Models

    Scientists made MatterChat, an AI that connects language models with atomic physics. It helps predict material properties.

    #MatterChat, #AIinScience, #AtomicPhysics, #LLM, #LawrenceBerkeleyLab

    newsletter.tf/matterchat-ai-un

  26. 'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb test is unlike anything scientists have seen. Via @live_science #Science #ParticlePhysics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    'Extreme' crystal that formed ...

  27. 'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb test is unlike anything scientists have seen. Via @live_science #Science #ParticlePhysics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    'Extreme' crystal that formed ...

  28. Distant entangled atoms acting as one sensor deliver stunning precision. Via @sciencedaily_official #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Distant entangled atoms acting...

  29. Why electron shells exist.

    Electron shells are not arbitrary quantum rules.
    They are the natural result of wave dynamics under boundary constraints.
    In an atom, the nuclear Coulomb potential defines boundary conditions.
    Solving the Schrödinger equation is not choosing energies — it is identifying which waveforms remain self-consistent under those constraints.
    Only specific standing-wave solutions survive.
    These eigenstates correspond exactly to observed shell levels.

    Continuous energies are excluded because they:
    diverge
    fail boundary conditions
    violate probability conservation.
    Discreteness emerges from constraint, it is not imposed.

    This is the same mechanism seen in: harmonics on a string
    resonant cavities
    pattern formation
    biological and cognitive systems
    Change the boundary → change the allowed states.
    Quantum mechanics works because nature selects stable modes under constraint.
    #Physics
    #QuantumMechanics
    #FoundationsOfPhysics
    #AtomicPhysics
    #ScienceCommunication
    #HybridMind42

  30. Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition. Via @sciencex.physorg #Science #Physics #NuclearPhysics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #NuclearEnergy ⚛️⚡ #Fusion

    Tokamak experiments exceed pla...

  31. Scientists outline how to control light at the atomic scale using polaritons. Via @sciencex.physorg #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Scientists outline how to cont...

  32. Fusion reactors may create dark matter particles. Via @sciencedaily_official #engineering ⚙️🛠️🔧🔬🧰 #NuclearEnergy ⚛️⚡ #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Fusion reactors may create dar...

  33. Physicists made atoms behave like a quantum circuit. Via @sciencedaily_official #Science #Physics #ParticlePhysics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Physicists made atoms behave l...

  34. Secret Atomic Patterns Have Been Discovered Hidden Inside Metals. Via @sciencealert #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Secret Atomic Patterns Have Be...

  35. @MIT physicists just found a way to see inside atoms. Via @sciencedaily_official #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    MIT physicists just found a wa...

  36. Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale. Via @sciencex.physorg #Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumMechanics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Quantum mechanics trumps the s...

  37. Princeton’s AI reveals what fusion sensors can’t see. Via @sciencedaily_official #NuclearEnergy ⚛️⚡ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #RenewableEnergy ♻️⚡🌎 #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Princeton’s AI reveals what fu...

  38. And this is why science is fucking awesome. Scientists Blast Dinosaur Eggs With Lasers to Check Their Ancient 'Atomic Clocks'. Via @sciencealert #Dinosaur #Dinosaurs #paleontology 🦕 #Science #Physics #AtomicPhysics #ParticlePhysics 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬

    Scientists Blast Dinosaur Eggs...

  39. We are headed into the season of the Nobel Prize. Announcements of awards will begin on October 6, with the Physics Prize being announced on the 7th. This year, I decided to have some fun in the “fediverse” and try to tease some nuggets out of the wisdom of the crowd.

    While crowds are, in fact, not always wise, it is nonetheless fun to use some of the tools of the open social web to prompt […]

    https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2025/09/23/fediversing-the-2025-physics-prize/

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