{"id":215838,"date":"2025-06-13T06:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/decades-old-mystery-of-alcl-dipole-moment-resolved"},"modified":"2025-06-13T06:16:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:16:56","slug":"decades-old-mystery-of-alcl-dipole-moment-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/decades-old-mystery-of-alcl-dipole-moment-resolved","title":{"rendered":"Decades-old mystery of AlCl dipole moment resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/decades-old-mystery-of-alcl-dipole-moment-resolved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pra\/abstract\/10.1103\/hwwm-1mn7\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the electric dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), a simple yet scientifically crucial diatomic molecule.<\/p>\n<p>Their results, published in <i>Physical Review A<\/i>, have implications for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum technologies<\/a>, astrophysics, and planetary science. The paper is titled \u201cMeasurement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+dipole+moment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric dipole moment<\/a> of AlCl by Stark-level spectroscopy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the dipole moment of AlCl was only estimated, with no experimental confirmation. The study\u2019s precise measurement now replaces the theoretical predictions with solid experimental data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the electric dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), a simple yet scientifically crucial diatomic molecule. Their results, published in Physical Review A, have implications for quantum technologies, astrophysics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215838","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=215838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}