Science Splitting up the indivisible: quasiparticles separate an electron’s spin, charge, and orbit Free electrons are indivisible, but researchers have separated the electron's … ...

More information: Aravind Devarakonda et al, Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice, Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02953-2 ...

Every scheme of assigning electrons to molecular orbitals is a configuration, and where states with different configurations have the same symmetry they interact with one another under the influence ...

In a scientific first, South Korean scientists have provided experimental proof of "multi-scale coupling" in plasma, where ...

How do tidal forces shape a planet's orbital evolution, especially for those in the habitable zone? A recently submitted ...

This energy loss provides detailed information about the electronic structure of the material, helping scientists understand how electrons, like those in the 5f orbital of uranium, behave and ...