{"id":156804,"date":"2023-02-02T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/physicists-observe-rare-resonance-in-molecules-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-02-02T01:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T07:27:19","slug":"physicists-observe-rare-resonance-in-molecules-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/physicists-observe-rare-resonance-in-molecules-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists observe rare resonance in molecules for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-observe-rare-resonance-in-molecules-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the glass may vibrate slightly in response to most acoustic tones, a pitch that resonates with the material\u2019s own natural frequency can send its vibrations into overdrive, causing the glass to shatter.<\/p>\n<p>Resonance also occurs at the much smaller scale of atoms and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a>. When particles chemically react, it\u2019s partly due to specific conditions that resonate with particles in a way that drives them to chemically link. But atoms and molecules are constantly in motion, inhabiting a blur of vibrating and rotating states. Picking out the exact resonating state that ultimately triggers molecules to react has been nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>MIT physicists may have cracked part of this mystery with a new study appearing in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. The team reports that they have for the first time observed a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/resonance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">resonance<\/a> in colliding <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ultracold+molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ultracold molecules<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the glass may vibrate slightly in response to most acoustic tones, a pitch that resonates with the material\u2019s own natural frequency can send its vibrations into overdrive, causing the glass to shatter. Resonance also occurs at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156804","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}