For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Precise knowledge of these nuclear radii is also crucial for comparisons with ongoing experiments on conventional helium ions with one electron and on neutral helium atoms with two electrons.

Over the past three decades, ab initio electronic structure calculations of large, complex and metallic systems are limited to tens of thousands of atoms in computational accuracy and efficiency on ...

We point out that although a litany of studies have been published on atoms in hard-wall confinement, they have either not been systematic, having only looked at select atoms and/or select electron ...

Entangled electrons Illustration depicting an atom (green nucleus with a white electron cloud) that is hit by a laser pulse (red). One electron is ripped out of the atom (black sphere on the right) ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...