{"id":203279,"date":"2025-01-07T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nickel-58-nucleus-may-host-elusive-toroidal-dipole-excitations"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:43:45","slug":"nickel-58-nucleus-may-host-elusive-toroidal-dipole-excitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/nickel-58-nucleus-may-host-elusive-toroidal-dipole-excitations","title":{"rendered":"Nickel-58 nucleus may host elusive toroidal dipole excitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nickel-58-nucleus-may-host-elusive-toroidal-dipole-excitations3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dipole toroidal modes are a unique set of excitations that are predicted to occur in various physical systems, ranging from atomic nuclei to metamaterials. What characterizes these excitations, or modes, is a toroidal distribution of currents, which results in the formation of vortex-like structures.<\/p>\n<p>A classic example is smoke rings, the characteristic \u201crings\u201d of smoke produced when puffs of smoke are released into the air through a narrow opening. Physics theories have also predicted the existence of toroidal dipole excitations in atomic nuclei, yet observing these modes has so far proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Technische Universitat Darmstadt, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, and other institutes recently identified candidates for toroidal dipole excitations in the nucleus <sup>58 <\/sup>Ni for the very first time. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.232502\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>, published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, opens new possibilities for the experimental observations of these elusive modes in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heavy+nuclei\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heavy nuclei<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipole toroidal modes are a unique set of excitations that are predicted to occur in various physical systems, ranging from atomic nuclei to metamaterials. What characterizes these excitations, or modes, is a toroidal distribution of currents, which results in the formation of vortex-like structures. A classic example is smoke rings, the characteristic \u201crings\u201d of smoke [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203279","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}