Five years later, scientists were able to peer inside a hydrogen atom using a "quantum microscope," resulting in the first direct observation of electron orbitals. And now we have the first X-ray ...

Scientists have calculated how it is possible to look inside the atom to image individual electron orbitals. An electron microscope can't just snap a photo like a mobile phone camera can.

Some time is then spent gently bringing the electron into phase with the microwave field, after which it stays locked to the microwave field and orbits the atom quite happily. The researchers also ...

The size of the atom compared to the size of the nucleus ... so that you can see the nucleus and the electron orbits together in the same view. And I'm okay with that, because the goal here ...

To salvage the atom, Bohr had to invent new rules that ... But back to Bohr, a quantized angular momentum meant that the electron's orbits were quantized, or separated in space.

In the past, such events were regarded as 'momentary' or 'instantaneous': An electron orbits the nucleus of an atom -- in the next moment it is suddenly ripped out by a flash of light. Two ...

Part I, appearing in July 1913, described the quantum rules for electron orbits and quantum jumps in the hydrogen atom, explaining the spectrum of colors it emitted. In Part II, Bohr described the ...

Theorists later suspected that the magnetic field had converted ordinary barium atoms into exotic Rydberg atoms, in which the outermost electron left the atom and moved in huge, cometlike orbits. When ...

Today, this model is known as the quantum model or the electron cloud model. The inner orbitals surrounding the atom are spherical but the outer orbitals are much more complicated. An atom's ...

Higher orbits could have twice that value ... But the electron also has kinetic energy, which works to send the electron flying away. For a stable atom, these two are in balance.

He calls the idea "orbital computing" since the bit that stores the it would be the orbits of electrons around the nucleus of an atom. The goal is to be able to probe the electron clouds of single ...