{"id":139089,"date":"2022-05-09T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/electron-motion-tracked-in-a-quantum-state-of-matter-using-x-ray-pulses-less-than-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second-long"},"modified":"2022-05-09T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:02:20","slug":"electron-motion-tracked-in-a-quantum-state-of-matter-using-x-ray-pulses-less-than-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/electron-motion-tracked-in-a-quantum-state-of-matter-using-x-ray-pulses-less-than-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second-long","title":{"rendered":"Electron Motion Tracked in a Quantum State of Matter Using X-Ray Pulses Less Than a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-motion-tracked-in-a-quantum-state-of-matter-using-x-ray-pulses-less-than-a-millionth-of-a-billionth-of-a-second-long2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow researchers to peer deep inside molecules and follow electrons as they zip around and ultimately initiate chemical reactions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory devised a method to generate X-ray laser bursts lasting hundreds of attoseconds (or billionths of a billionth of a second) in 2018. This technique, known as X-ray laser-enhanced attosecond pulse generation (XLEAP), enables researchers to investigate how electrons racing about molecules initiate key processes in biology, chemistry, materials science, and other fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectron motion is an important process by which nature can move energy around,\u201d says SLAC scientist James Cryan. \u201cA charge is created in one part of a molecule and it transfers to another part of the molecule, potentially kicking off a chemical reaction. It\u2019s an important piece of the puzzle when you start to think about photovoltaic devices for artificial photosynthesis, or charge transfer inside a molecule.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a millionth of a billionth of a second long, attosecond X-ray pulses allow researchers to peer deep inside molecules and follow electrons as they zip around and ultimately initiate chemical reactions. Scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory devised a method to generate X-ray laser bursts lasting hundreds of attoseconds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139089","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}