"We wanted to take pictures of the actual electrons that are driving that motion," Ian Gabalski, a physics doctoral student and lead author of the study, told Live Science. If scientists can ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. Heavy fermion materials have long attracted interest in condensed matter physics for hosting correlation-driven exotic quantum states. Remarkably, the oxide ...

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For the first time, scientists have used ultrafast X-ray flashes to take a direct image of a single electron as it moved during a chemical reaction. In the new study, published Aug. 20 in the journal ...