{"id":234847,"date":"2026-04-09T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/electron-atom-scattering-encodes-the-quantum-state-of-electron-wave-packets"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:28:09","slug":"electron-atom-scattering-encodes-the-quantum-state-of-electron-wave-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/electron-atom-scattering-encodes-the-quantum-state-of-electron-wave-packets","title":{"rendered":"Electron\u2013atom scattering encodes the quantum state of electron wave packets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-atom-scattering-encodes-the-quantum-state-of-electron-wave-packets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1367-2630\/ae0755\" target=\"_blank\">new analysis<\/a> reveals what happens when very short or narrow electron beams encounter a particle. The research is published in the <i>New Journal of Physics<\/i>. Scientists should be able to achieve a new level of control over high-energy electrons interacting with a particle, according to the theoretical analysis by a RIKEN physicist and two colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Electrons are particles, but according to quantum mechanics they also behave like waves under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Electron microscopes exploit this wave-like nature of electrons to obtain high-resolution images of objects by imaging how an electron beam is scattered from an object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis reveals what happens when very short or narrow electron beams encounter a particle. The research is published in the New Journal of Physics. Scientists should be able to achieve a new level of control over high-energy electrons interacting with a particle, according to the theoretical analysis by a RIKEN physicist and two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234847","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\/234847","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=234847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}