Using a new method, physicists have investigated the ultrafast fragmentation of hydrogen molecules in intense laser fields in detail. They used the rotation of the molecule triggered by a laser pulse ...

Controlling the rotation of this molecule could lead to new technologies for microelectronics, quantum computing and more. You can easily rotate a baseball in your hand by twisting your fingers. But ...

Being able to rotate a molecule of oxygen on command could lead to a new concept of data storage, say scientists at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Working with a "homemade" scanning tunneling ...

Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting 'molecular movie' tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS) -- ...

Scientists have achieved a new level of control over molecules as they were able to manipulate a calcium monohydride molecular ion — made up of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of calcium. This feat, ...

Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have investigated the ultrafast fragmentation of hydrogen molecules in intense laser fields in detail. They ...