{"id":102626,"date":"2020-02-21T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/quantum-physicists-hold-individual-atoms-in-place-for-first-time"},"modified":"2020-02-21T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:27:43","slug":"quantum-physicists-hold-individual-atoms-in-place-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/quantum-physicists-hold-individual-atoms-in-place-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Physicists \u201cHold\u201d Individual Atoms in Place for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-physicists-hold-individual-atoms-in-place-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Molecule Rules<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The team even managed to observe two of three atoms collide to form a molecule \u2014 a process that has never been observed on this scale before. They were surprised at how long it took compared to previous experiments and calculations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy working at this molecular level, we now know more about how atoms collide and react with one another,\u201d lead author and postdoc researcher Marvin Weyland said in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-physicists-individual-atoms-groundbreaking.html\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cWith development, this technique could provide a way to build and control single molecules of particular chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecule Rules The team even managed to observe two of three atoms collide to form a molecule \u2014 a process that has never been observed on this scale before. They were surprised at how long it took compared to previous experiments and calculations. \u201cBy working at this molecular level, we now know more about how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}