{"id":208759,"date":"2025-03-15T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-use-optical-vortex-beams-to-control-atom-ionization"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:22:13","slug":"physicists-use-optical-vortex-beams-to-control-atom-ionization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-use-optical-vortex-beams-to-control-atom-ionization","title":{"rendered":"Physicists use optical vortex beams to control atom ionization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-use-optical-vortex-beams-to-control-atom-ionization3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and molecules, a fundamental process in physics that has implications for various fields including X-ray generation and plasma physics.<\/p>\n<p>The research, titled \u201cOrbital angular momentum control of strong-field <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ionization\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ionization<\/a> in atoms and molecules,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57618-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Think about atoms\u2014the building blocks of everything around us. Sometimes, they lose their electrons and become charged particles (that\u2019s ionization). It happens in lightning, in plasma TVs, and even in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/northern+lights\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">northern lights<\/a>. Until now, scientists thought they could only control this process in limited ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and molecules, a fundamental process in physics that has implications for various fields including X-ray generation and plasma physics. The research, titled \u201cOrbital angular momentum control of strong-field ionization in atoms and molecules,\u201d is published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208759","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=208759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}