Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting "molecular movie" tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS)—a ...

(Nanowerk News) The peculiar topological properties of some forms of matter have been researched for decades. Now, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have discovered ...

Swansea researchers have developed a new method to stop a molecule from rotating using ultra-low energy, shedding new light on molecule-surface interactions. While invisible to the naked eye, we are ...

They then set those molecules to rotate quantum mechanically—a situation analogous to molecules aligning and rotating both clockwise and counterclockwise at the same time—using microwave radiation.

Scientists from Germany, Japan, and India have demonstrated that femtosecond laser pulses can force an entire layer of molecules to rotate in unison on a two-dimensional quantum material, a result ...

Two molecules approach a surface. The red one is rotating like a helicopter with respect to the surface and the green one is rotating like a cart wheel. Researchers at Swansea University have shown ...

Strongly interacting electrons are central to many unusual electric and magnetic properties of materials. However, investigating these systems has been challenging, given their complexity. Using ...

Researchers have built a compact device, the size of a shoebox, that produces a terahertz laser whose frequency they can tune over a wide range. The device is built from commercial, off-the-shelf ...