{"id":173510,"date":"2023-10-05T07:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/breaking-the-born-oppenheimer-approximation-experiments-unveil-long-theorized-quantum-phenomenon"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T12:22:24","slug":"breaking-the-born-oppenheimer-approximation-experiments-unveil-long-theorized-quantum-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/breaking-the-born-oppenheimer-approximation-experiments-unveil-long-theorized-quantum-phenomenon","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation \u2014 Experiments Unveil Long-Theorized Quantum Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-the-born-oppenheimer-approximation-experiments-unveil-long-theorized-quantum-phenomenon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly a century ago, physicists Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer developed a hypothesis about the functioning of quantum mechanics within molecules. These molecules consist of complex systems of nuclei and electrons. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation postulates that the movements of nuclei and electrons within a molecule occur independently and can treated separately.<\/p>\n<p>This model works the vast majority of the time, but scientists are testing its limits. Recently, a team of scientists demonstrated the breakdown of this assumption on very fast time scales, revealing a close relationship between the dynamics of nuclei and electrons. The discovery could influence the design of molecules useful for solar energy conversion, energy production, quantum information science, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The team, including scientists from the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/doe\/\">U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/argonne-national-laboratory\/\">Argonne National Laboratory<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/northwestern-university\/\">Northwestern University<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/north-carolina-state-university\/\">North Carolina State University<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-washington\/amp\/\">University of Washington<\/a>, recently published their discovery in two related papers in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em> and <em>Angewandte Chemie International Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a century ago, physicists Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer developed a hypothesis about the functioning of quantum mechanics within molecules. These molecules consist of complex systems of nuclei and electrons. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation postulates that the movements of nuclei and electrons within a molecule occur independently and can treated separately. This model works [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173510","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}