Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Photographs of atoms

Some researchers at MIT came up with a means to capture images of atoms with detail we've never seen. You can see how bosons bunch up while fermions stay apart, illustrating how the electrons and positive/negative attraction works.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mit-physicists-snap-the-first-images-of-atoms-in-their-free-range-states/


Two types of atoms, bosons on the left exhibit bunching while the fermions on the right display anti-bunching – Credit: Sampson Wilcox / MIT

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