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Dipole–dipole interactions, which govern phenomena such as cooperative Lamb shifts, superradiant decay rates, Van der Waals forces and resonance energy transfer rates, are conventionally limited to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new approach to control forces and interactions between atoms and molecules, such as those employed by geckos to climb vertical surfaces, could bring advances in new materials ...

An international collaboration involving European, Israeli, and US scientists realize for the first time strong and directionally dependent interactions in quantum liquids of excitons, which contrasts ...

A proposed pathway to construct quantum computers may be the outcome of research by a physics team that has created a new molecule based on the interaction between a highly-excited type of atom known ...

Researchers contributed to a deeper understanding of free electron laser physics by evaluating the interaction between an ultraviolet laser and a relativistic electron beam in a pure dipole magnet.

Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

Rank the following in order of decreasing boiling point: dichloromethane (CH2Cl2), chloroform (CHCl3), carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) Intermolecular Forces: Dichloromethane and chloroform are polar and ...

A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the University of Warsaw and Emory University (Atlanta, U.S.) analyzed how atoms' ...

A new study find that ice might actually be slippery due to the orientation of the dipoles in the material and how they align ...