The collision of an atom and a diatomic molecule may sound like a simple process but it has long been studied to understand the inherent intricacies of collisional energy transfer. Now, experiments ...

Exploiting the hyperfine structure in repulsive light-assisted collisions (LAC) on a 87-Rubidium atom pair in an optical tweezer. When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of ...

Physicists have traced the double ionization of argon atoms on attosecond time scales. When an intense laser pulse interacts with an atom it generates agitation on the micro scale. The most likely ...

The game of billiards is an ideal sport to be tested with physics and mathematics. In many universities, professors use this game to explain some concepts about physics. The theory of rebounds and ...

For anyone who has ever had their ass handed to them in a game of pool, take comfort knowing that in the end, physics beats everything. A physicist has calculated how many collisions it takes for ...

NO MATTER how long you gaze at the clouds in the sky, you’ll never spot them behaving like those in Martin Zwierlein‘s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bizarrely, when two of ...