Free-range atoms captured in space

This is a news story, published by Good News Network, that relates primarily to MIT news.

physics news

For more physics news, you can click here:

more physics news

Good News Network news

For more news from Good News Network, you can click here:

more news from Good News Network

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like physics news, you might also like this article about

atoms

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest single atoms news, quantum phenomenon news, physics news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

quantum phenomena

Good News Network

•

Science

MIT Physicists Snap the First Ever Images of Atoms–Capturing Them in Their ‘Free-Range’ States

Summary

Nutrition label

85% Informative

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space.

The pictures reveal correlations among the “free-range” particles that until now were predicted but never directly observed.

Their findings will help scientists visualize never-before-seen quantum phenomena in real space.

Going forward, the physicists will apply their imaging technique to visualize more exotic and less understood phenomena, such as “ quantum Hall physics” “That’s where theory gets really hairy — where people start drawing pictures instead of being able to write down a full-fledged theory because they can’t fully solve it.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful