Redox reactions form the basis of many fundamental processes of life. Without them, neither cellular respiration nor ...

With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales faster than competing technologies ...

Amplified spontaneous emission is a physical phenomenon that entails the amplification of the light spontaneously emitted by ...

If an electron is in an excited state it can return to a lower energy level. When it does this, it loses energy. The amount of energy it loses will be equal to the difference in the energy levels ...

The trio discovered that when an electron is excited by light, it gets a simultaneous energy boost from a phonon to form a "dark exciton" state. After losing a little energy, the exciton finally ...

Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how 'excited-state aromaticity' emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar ...

Rare cases exist of divalent carbon compounds called carbones, where a central neutral atom in an electronically excited state is stabilized by two bonds with neutral electron-pair donating groups.

A schematic of the photoexcited dipole dynamics in phosphorene nanoribbons, where following photoexcitation the excited state ...

Researchers demonstrate how phosphorene nanoribbons' magnetic properties interact with light, paving the way for new quantum technologies.