Question

The first GIF of an Atom, shot with a new Quantum Laser Camera!

Answer 1

You’re looking at the first ever direct observation and recording of an atom and its orbital structure.
Hydrogen atoms make up 75% of the mass in the universe, but they’ve always been too small to actually see.
A team of scientists held a hydrogen atom in a static field and shot a laser at it, causing it to shoot out electrons at a lens which magnified its wave pattern 20,000 times so a microscopic camera could see it.

The images were shot by Aneta Stodolna and the team of geniuses at The Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, and published in their paper ”Hydrogen Atoms under Magnification: Direct Observation”, helping confirm 30 years of theoretical predictions.

Read the full published article here: http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213001

and
heere: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i21/e213001

Answer 2

\(\Huge\sf\color{blue}{Impressive!!}\)
Are they going to apply it to bigger atoms?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Would be cool to see P, D and F orbitals in a GIF too

Answer 7

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Answer 8

ya I want to see the electrons on super mega duper high speed camera first

Answer 9

Just apply a 100,000 X magnification lens :D

Answer 10

@chmvijay is that you in ur pic

Answer 11

Awesome

Answer 12

Nice @abb0t , thanks!