{"id":29112,"date":"2016-08-19T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/focus-giant-molecule-made-from-two-atoms"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:23:11","slug":"focus-giant-molecule-made-from-two-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/focus-giant-molecule-made-from-two-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Focus: Giant Molecule Made from Two Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/focus-giant-molecule-made-from-two-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments confirm the existence of 1-micrometer-sized molecules made of two cesium atoms by showing that their binding energies agree with predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly bound diatomic molecules such as H2H2or O2O2 are less than a nanometer across. Surprisingly, scientists have been able to create two-atom molecules more than a thousand times larger by using exotic atoms that attract one another only very weakly. Now, a pair of physicists have calculated what makes these \u201cmacrodimers\u201d stable, and they have verified their predictions by creating micrometer-sized molecules containing two cesium atoms. The macrodimers could have applications in quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v9\/99\">http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v9\/99<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments confirm the existence of 1-micrometer-sized molecules made of two cesium atoms by showing that their binding energies agree with predictions. Strongly bound diatomic molecules such as H2H2or O2O2 are less than a nanometer across. Surprisingly, scientists have been able to create two-atom molecules more than a thousand times larger by using exotic atoms that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29112","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66519,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29112\/revisions\/66519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}