Localized Bohr-Like Wave Packets (IMAGE)

Rice University

Localized Bohr-Like Wave Packets

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Using laser beams and electric fields, Rice physicists coaxed a point-like, "localized" electron to orbit far from the nucleus of a potassium atom.

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Jeff Mestayer/Rice University

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