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  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,684 Views
18 Pages

Symmetric Atom–Atom and Ion–Atom Processes in Stellar Atmospheres

  • Vladimir A. Srećković,
  • Ljubinko M. Ignjatović and
  • Milan S. Dimitrijević

21 December 2017

We present the results of the influence of two groups of collisional processes (atom–atom and ion–atom) on the optical and kinetic properties of weakly ionized stellar atmospheres layers. The first type includes radiative processes of the photodissoc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,886 Views
22 Pages

Microwave Atom Chip Design

  • William Miyahira,
  • Andrew P. Rotunno,
  • ShuangLi Du and
  • Seth Aubin

5 August 2021

We present a toolbox of microstrip building blocks for microwave atom chips geared towards trapped atom interferometry. Transverse trapping potentials based on the AC Zeeman (ACZ) effect can be formed from the combined microwave magnetic near fields...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,004 Views
9 Pages

MetAMDB: Metabolic Atom Mapping Database

  • Collin Starke and
  • Andre Wegner

27 January 2022

MetAMDB is an open-source metabolic atom mapping database, providing atom mappings for around 43,000 metabolic reactions. Each atom mapping can be inspected and downloaded either as an RXN file or as a graphic in SVG format. In addition, MetAMDB offe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,595 Views
8 Pages

Thermalization of a Trapped Single Atom with an Atomic Thermal Bath

  • Rahul Sawant,
  • Anna Maffei and
  • Giovanni Barontini

4 March 2021

We studied a single atom trapped in an optical tweezer interacting with a thermal bath of ultracold atoms of a different species. Because of the collisions between the trapped atom and the bath atoms, the trapped atom undergoes changes in its vibrati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,380 Views
25 Pages

Two-Atom Collisions and the Loading of Atoms in Microtraps

  • Yin H. Fung,
  • Alicia V. Carpentier,
  • Pimonpan Sompet and
  • Mikkel Andersen

16 January 2014

We review light assisted collisions in a high-density far-off resonant optical trap (FORT). By tuning the parameters of the light that induces the collisions, the effects of the collisions can be controlled. Trap loss can be suppressed even at high a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,314 Views
9 Pages

Forced Atom Interferometers in Optical Harmonic Potentials

  • Mingjie Xin,
  • Wui Seng Leong,
  • Zilong Chen and
  • Shau-Yu Lan

3 April 2025

We present a study of Doppler-sensitive light-pulse atom interferometers operating within optical dipole potentials, where atomic trajectories are manipulated using momentum transfer from light pulses and optical forces from the trap. Efficient metho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,590 Views
10 Pages

21 April 2025

Atomically dispersed catalysts, including single-atom, dual-atom, and periodic single-metal site catalysts, have revolutionized electrocatalysis by merging atomic precision with heterogeneous stability. This review traces their evolution from pioneer...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,652 Views
16 Pages

Review of Atom Chips for Absolute Gravity Sensors

  • Dezhao Li,
  • Wenfeng He,
  • Shengnan Shi,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Yuhua Xiao,
  • Qiang Lin and
  • Long Li

26 May 2023

As a powerful tool in scientific research and industrial technologies, the cold atom absolute gravity sensor (CAGS) based on cold atom interferometry has been proven to be the most promising new generation high-precision absolute gravity sensor. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,514 Views
27 Pages

Partial Imaginary Transition State (ITS) Graphs: A Formal Framework for Research and Analysis of Atom-to-Atom Maps of Unbalanced Chemical Reactions and Their Completions

  • Marcos E. González Laffitte,
  • Klaus Weinbauer,
  • Tieu-Long Phan,
  • Nora Beier,
  • Nico Domschke,
  • Christoph Flamm,
  • Thomas Gatter,
  • Daniel Merkle and
  • Peter F. Stadler

16 September 2024

Atom-to-atom maps (AAMs) are bijections that establish the correspondence of reactant and product atoms across chemical reactions. They capture crucial features of the reaction mechanism and thus play a central role in modeling chemistry at the level...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,180 Views
10 Pages

Atoms in Generalized Orbital Configurations: Towards Atom-Dedicated Density Functionals

  • Ana Maria Toader,
  • Maria Cristina Buta,
  • Dan Maftei,
  • Mihai V. Putz and
  • Fanica Cimpoesu

26 November 2019

Deriving a practical formula for the atomic body with generalized shell occupations, we perform a detective analysis of the radial distribution in the exchange energy, hinting at ideas about new types of density functionals, dedicated to the specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,566 Views
11 Pages

30 March 2016

Accurate values for atomic dipole matrix elements are useful in many areas of physics, and in particular for interpreting experiments such as atomic parity violation. Obtaining accurate matrix element values is a challenge for both experiment and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,406 Views
11 Pages

Decoherence Spectroscopy for Atom Interferometry

  • Raisa Trubko and
  • Alexander D. Cronin

17 August 2016

Decoherence due to photon scattering in an atom interferometer was studied as a function of laser frequency near an atomic resonance. The resulting decoherence (contrast-loss) spectra will be used to calibrate measurements of tune-out wavelengths tha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,893 Views
24 Pages

Interstitial Atom Engineering in Magnetic Materials

  • Jiro Kitagawa,
  • Kohei Sakaguchi,
  • Tomohiro Hara,
  • Fumiaki Hirano,
  • Naoki Shirakawa and
  • Masami Tsubota

6 December 2020

Interstitial light elements play an important role in magnetic materials by improving the magnetic properties through changes of the unit cell volume or through orbital hybridization between the magnetic and interstitial atoms. In this review focusin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,027 Views
20 Pages

We consider a multilevel atom, such as a hydrogen atom, interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field in the dressed ground state of the interacting system. Using perturbation theory within the dipole approximation, we evaluate the dressed groun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,928 Views
12 Pages

Low-Frequency Communication Based on Rydberg-Atom Receiver

  • Yipeng Xie,
  • Mingwei Lei,
  • Jianquan Zhang,
  • Wenbo Dong and
  • Meng Shi

Rydberg-atom receivers have developed rapidly with increasing sensitivity. However, studies on their application in low-frequency electric fields remain limited. In this work, we demonstrate low-frequency communication using an electrode-embedded ato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,994 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2021

The atom graph of a graph is a graph whose vertices are the atoms obtained by clique minimal separator decomposition of this graph, and whose edges are the edges of all possible atom trees of this graph. We provide two efficient algorithms for comput...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,659 Views
28 Pages

Atom Interferometry in the Presence of an External Test Mass

  • Boris Dubetsky,
  • Stephen B. Libby and
  • Paul Berman

21 April 2016

The influence of an external test mass on the phase of the signal of an atom interferometer is studied theoretically. Using traditional techniques in atom optics based on the density matrix equations in the Wigner representation, we are able to extra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,823 Views
13 Pages

The Hydrogenation of Crotonaldehyde on PdCu Single Atom Alloy Catalysts

  • Mohammed J. Islam,
  • Marta Granollers Mesa,
  • Amin Osatiashtiani,
  • Martin J. Taylor,
  • Mark A. Isaacs and
  • Georgios Kyriakou

21 April 2023

Recyclable PdCu single atom alloys supported on Al2O3 were applied to the selective hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde to elucidate the minimum number of Pd atoms required to facilitate the sustainable transformation of an α,β-unsaturated car...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,734 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Polarizability Measurements Made with Atom Interferometry

  • Maxwell D. Gregoire,
  • Nathan Brooks,
  • Raisa Trubko and
  • Alexander D. Cronin

6 July 2016

We present revised measurements of the static electric dipole polarizabilities of K, Rb, and Cs based on atom interferometer experiments presented in [Phys. Rev. A 2015, 92, 052513] but now re-analyzed with new calibrations for the magnitude and geom...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,675 Views
9 Pages

24 September 2020

Contemporary spectroscopic studies of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas frequently deal with extremely large values of principle quantum numbers of atomic systems. These atomic states are very sensitive to electric and magnetic fields of the surro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,158 Views
18 Pages

Single-Atom Catalysts: Preparation and Applications in Environmental Catalysis

  • Xiaohui Yu,
  • Jiguang Deng,
  • Yuxi Liu,
  • Lin Jing,
  • Zhiquan Hou,
  • Wenbo Pei and
  • Hongxing Dai

14 October 2022

Due to the expensive price and the low reserve of noble metals in nature, much attention has been paid to single-atom catalysts (SACs)—especially single-atom noble metal catalysts—owing to their maximum atomic utilization and dispersion....

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,908 Views
39 Pages

Recent Advances in Multi-Atom Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Applications

  • Qing Wang,
  • Bo Cheng,
  • Shichang Cai,
  • Xiaoxiao Li,
  • Di Lu,
  • Naying Zhang,
  • Chaoqun Chen,
  • Hanlu Zhang,
  • Yagang Feng and
  • Zihan Meng
  • + 2 authors

30 June 2025

Single-atom catalysts characterized by their novel electronic configurations and exceptional atomic utilization efficiency have emerged as potential alternatives to costly noble metal catalysts, garnering extensive research attention in various elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,954 Views
42 Pages

Prospects for Precise Measurements with Echo Atom Interferometry

  • Brynle Barrett,
  • Adam Carew,
  • Hermina C. Beica,
  • Andrejs Vorozcovs,
  • Alexander Pouliot and
  • A. Kumarakrishnan

27 June 2016

Echo atom interferometers have emerged as interesting alternatives to Raman interferometers for the realization of precise measurements of the gravitational acceleration g and the determination of the atomic fine structure through measurements of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,472 Views
14 Pages

The Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Transparent Atom Chip

  • Ho-Chiao Chuang,
  • Chia-Shiuan Huang,
  • Hung-Pin Chen,
  • Chi-Sheng Huang and
  • Yu-Hsin Lin

11 June 2014

This study describes the design and fabrication of transparent atom chips for atomic physics experiments. A fabrication process was developed to define the wire patterns on a transparent glass substrate to create the desired magnetic field for atom t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,594 Views
15 Pages

ATOM Program System and Computational Experiment

  • Larissa V. Chernysheva and
  • Vadim K. Ivanov

24 May 2022

The article is devoted to a brief description of the ATOM computer program system, designed to study the structure, transition probabilities and cross sections of various processes in multielectron atoms. The theoretical study was based on the concep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,383 Views
30 Pages

Laboratory Courses on Laser Spectroscopy and Atom Trapping

  • Hermina C. Beica,
  • Shoshana Winter,
  • Carson Mok,
  • Brynle Barrett,
  • Rob Berthiaume,
  • Andrejs Vorozcovs,
  • Fadi Yachoua,
  • Nima Afkhami-Jeddi,
  • Monika Aggarwal and
  • A. Kumarakrishnan
  • + 5 authors

28 May 2020

We present an overview of experiments covered in two semester-length laboratory courses dedicated to laser spectroscopy and atom trapping. These courses constitute a powerful approach for teaching experimental physics in a manner that is both contemp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,082 Views
6 Pages

Improvement of the NIFS Atom and Molecular Database

  • Masahiko Emoto,
  • Izumi Murakami,
  • Daiji Kato,
  • Masanobu Yoshida,
  • Masatoshi Kato and
  • Setsuo Imazu

11 September 2019

The NIFS (National Institute for Fusion Science) Atom and Molecular Database, which has been available online since 1997, is a numerical atomic and molecular database of collision processes that is important for fusion research. This database provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,844 Views
27 Pages

Within the framework of the XHe hypothesis, the positive results of the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments on the direct search for dark matter particles can be explained by the annual modulation of the radiative capture of dark atoms into low-energ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,516 Views
22 Pages

In recent years, the development of highly sensitive sensors has become a popular research topic. Some functional nanomaterials occupy an important position in the sensing field by virtue of their unique structures and catalytic properties, but there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,590 Views
23 Pages

Characterization of a Continuous Beam Cold Atom Ramsey Interferometer

  • Michael P. Manicchia,
  • Jeffrey G. Lee and
  • Frank A. Narducci

5 March 2023

The use of atom interferometers in inertial systems holds the promise of improvement of several orders of magnitude in sensitivity over sensors using current technology such as micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) devices or ring laser gyroscopes (RLGs)....

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,573 Views
18 Pages

Single-atom nanozymes, with their atomically dispersed metal active sites, distinctive atom utilization rate, and tunable electronic structure, demonstrate great promise in the field of sensing analysis. This paper reviews the latest research progres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,974 Views
18 Pages

20 September 2011

The main purpose of this paper is to establish a signal decomposition system aiming at mixed over-voltages in power systems. In an electric power system, over-voltage presents a great threat for the system safety. Analysis and identification of over-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
17,769 Views
26 Pages

Research Progress and Application of Single-Atom Catalysts: A Review

  • He He,
  • Hudson Haocheng Wang,
  • Junjian Liu,
  • Xujun Liu,
  • Weizun Li and
  • Yannan Wang

28 October 2021

Due to excellent performance properties such as strong activity and high selectivity, single-atom catalysts have been widely used in various catalytic reactions. Exploring the application of single-atom catalysts and elucidating their reaction mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,458 Views
11 Pages

Shannon Entropy for the Hydrogen Atom Confined by Four Different Potentials

  • Michael-Adán Martínez-Sánchez,
  • Rubicelia Vargas and
  • Jorge Garza

1 November 2019

Spatial confinements induce localization or delocalization on the electron density in atoms and molecules, and the hydrogen atom is not the exception to these results. In previous works, this system has been confined by an infinite and a finite poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,463 Views
15 Pages

Ag Atom Anchored on Defective Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets As Single Atom Adsorbents for Enhanced Adsorptive Desulfurization via S-Ag Bonds

  • Hui Liu,
  • Jie Yin,
  • Jinrui Zhang,
  • Hongshun Ran,
  • Naixia Lv,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Hongping Li,
  • Wenshuai Zhu and
  • Huaming Li

14 June 2022

Single atom adsorbents (SAAs) are a novel class of materials that have great potential in various fields, especially in the field of adsorptive desulfurization. However, it is still challenging to gain a fundamental understanding of the complicated b...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,519 Views
15 Pages

Advances in Portable Atom Interferometry-Based Gravity Sensing

  • Jamie Vovrosh,
  • Andrei Dragomir,
  • Ben Stray and
  • Daniel Boddice

4 September 2023

Gravity sensing is a valuable technique used for several applications, including fundamental physics, civil engineering, metrology, geology, and resource exploration. While classical gravimeters have proven useful, they face limitations, such as mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,021 Views
15 Pages

Long-Range Atom–Ion Rydberg Molecule: A Novel Molecular Binding Mechanism

  • Markus Deiß,
  • Shinsuke Haze and
  • Johannes Hecker Denschlag

21 June 2021

We present a novel binding mechanism where a neutral Rydberg atom and an atomic ion form a molecular bound state at a large internuclear distance. The binding mechanism is based on Stark shifts and level crossings that are induced in the Rydberg atom...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,471 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2020

In the development of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics, atom-ion hybrid systems are characterized by the presence of a new tool in the experimental AMO toolbox: atom-ion interactions. One of the main limitations in state-of-the-art atom-i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,148 Views
19 Pages

Recent Development of Single-Atom Catalysis for the Functionalization of Alkenes

  • Xuetong Yu,
  • Yuxia Ji,
  • Yan Jiang,
  • Rui Lang,
  • Yanxiong Fang and
  • Botao Qiao

12 April 2023

The functionalization of alkenes is one of the most important conversions in synthetic chemistry to prepare numerous fine chemicals. Typical procedures, such as hydrosilylation and hydroformylation, are traditionally catalyzed using homogeneous noble...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
10,519 Views
35 Pages

Atom Probe Tomography for Catalysis Applications: A Review

  • Cédric Barroo,
  • Austin J. Akey and
  • David C. Bell

5 July 2019

Atom probe tomography is a well-established analytical instrument for imaging the 3D structure and composition of materials with high mass resolution, sub-nanometer spatial resolution and ppm elemental sensitivity. Thanks to recent hardware developme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,791 Views
13 Pages

4 June 2023

We investigate some new aspects of the nonlinear interaction between a three-level Ξ-type atom and bimodal field. The photon-assisted atomic phase damping, detuning parameter, Kerr nonlinearity and the time-dependent coupling have been considered....

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,983 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2023

After more than 30 years of development, the measurement performance of atom gravimeters in the laboratory has reached a high level. More and more compact, small, portable instruments begin to appear, and field measurements have been conducted gradua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,102 Views
9 Pages

A Fast Rearrangement Method for Defect-Free Atom Arrays

  • Yuqing Zhang,
  • Zeyan Zhang,
  • Guoqing Zhang,
  • Zhehua Zhang,
  • Yanpu Chen,
  • Yuqing Li,
  • Wenliang Liu,
  • Jizhou Wu,
  • Vladimir Sovkov and
  • Jie Ma

28 January 2025

Defect-free atom arrays provide new possibilities for exploring exotic quantum phenomena and realizing quantum computing. However, quickly and efficiently preparing defect-free atom arrays poses challenges. This paper proposes an innovative parallel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,794 Views
15 Pages

20 August 1997

Knowledge-based NMR spectral prediction relies on the correlations between substructures and sub-spectra. To extract the correlations, a systematic substructure measurement has been developed to classify substructures according to their chemical shif...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,081 Views
8 Pages

Autoionization of Ultracold Cesium Rydberg Atom in 37D5/2 State

  • Yuechun Jiao,
  • Liping Hao,
  • Jiabei Fan,
  • Jingxu Bai,
  • Jianming Zhao and
  • Suotang Jia

We present the observation of an autoionization of cesium 37D5/2 Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases and analyze the autoionization mechanism. The autoionization process is investigated by varying the delay time tD and Rydberg atomic density. The depend...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,647 Views
40 Pages

A Theoretical Study of Scattering of e± by Tl Atom

  • Sunzida Parvin,
  • M. Masum Billah,
  • Mahmudul H. Khandker,
  • M. Ismail Hossain,
  • M. M. Haque,
  • Mehrdad Shahmohammadi Beni,
  • Hiroshi Watabe,
  • A. K. Fazlul Haque and
  • M. Alfaz Uddin

10 February 2023

This article incorporates details of our calculations of the observable quantities for the scattering of electrons and positrons from a post transition metal Thallium (Tl), in the energy range of 1 eV ≤ Ei ≤ 1 MeV, using the relativistic Dirac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
761 Views
15 Pages

10 October 2025

We study the quantum dynamics of cold atoms initially confined in a helical optical tube (HOT) and subsequently released into free space. This helicoidal potential, engineered via structured light fields with orbital angular momentum, imposes a twist...

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