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Physics

Atomic / molecular / quantum

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

schematic of the MOTIS ion beam source

Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams

Completed
Focused beams of ions have a wide range of uses, from nanoscale imaging to the fabrication of nanomaterials. We are developing novel cold-atom based ion sources

Atomic Wavefunctions

Ongoing
NIST scientists are actively developing new algorithms for extremely high-accuracy computation of non-relativistic eigenstates of few-electron atomic systems.

The Research

schematic of the MOTIS ion beam source

Novel Sources for Focused-ion Beams

Completed
Focused beams of ions have a wide range of uses, from nanoscale imaging to the fabrication of nanomaterials. We are developing novel cold-atom based ion sources

Atomic Wavefunctions

Ongoing
NIST scientists are actively developing new algorithms for extremely high-accuracy computation of non-relativistic eigenstates of few-electron atomic systems.

Additional Resources Links

Atomic Spectra Database
Atomic Spectroscopy Databases
Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data

Publications

Single-electron states of phosphorus-atom arrays in silicon

Author(s)
Maicol Ochoa, Keyi Liu, Michał Zieliński, Garnett W. Bryant
We characterize the single-electron energies and the wavefunction structure of arrays with two, three, and four phosphorus atoms in silicon by implementing

Benford's law in atomic spectra and opacity databases

Author(s)
Yuri Ralchenko, Jean-Christophe Pain
The intriguing law of anomalous numbers, also named Benford's law, states that the significant digits of data follow a logarithmic distribution favoring the

Awards