{"id":209447,"date":"2025-03-21T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/graphene-quantum-dots-mimic-orbital-hybridization"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:09:34","slug":"graphene-quantum-dots-mimic-orbital-hybridization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/graphene-quantum-dots-mimic-orbital-hybridization","title":{"rendered":"Graphene quantum dots mimic orbital hybridization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-quantum-dots-mimic-orbital-hybridization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professor Sun Qing-Feng in collaboration with Professor He Lin\u2019s research group from Beijing Normal University has achieved orbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial atoms for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Their study, titled \u201cOrbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial atoms\u201d has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08620-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>. The work marks a significant milestone in the field of quantum physics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a>, bridging the gap between artificial and real atomic behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum dots, often called artificial atoms, can mimic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+orbitals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic orbitals<\/a> but have not yet been used to simulate orbital hybridization, a crucial process in real atoms. While quantum dots have successfully demonstrated artificial bonding and antibonding states, their ability to replicate orbital hybridization remained unexplored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Professor Sun Qing-Feng in collaboration with Professor He Lin\u2019s research group from Beijing Normal University has achieved orbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial atoms for the first time. Their study, titled \u201cOrbital hybridization in graphene-based artificial atoms\u201d has been published in Nature. The work marks a significant milestone in the field [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209447","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}