The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

In physics, a cluster is defined as an independent material form at the transition area between isolated atoms and more extensive solid objects or liquids. Magic number clusters can be traced back ...

Clusters that contain a magic number of atoms have advantages for many applications because they are more stable than other clusters. Physicists recently discovered a new type of silver-nickel ...

New “Magic Number” inside Atoms Discovered At the frontiers of high-energy physics, picking “34” is like hitting the lottery ...

Like magic Atomic clusters are formed when a finite number of atoms clump together to form an ensemble larger than a typical molecule, but too small to be considered a bulk solid. Although any number ...

Topology, a branch of mathematics classifying geometric objects, has been exploited by physicists to predict and describe unusual quantum phases: the topological states of matter. These intriguing ...

Disagreement came from the Exxon group, who stuck to the idea that the carbon clusters were most likely composed of uninteresting, cross-linked strands of atoms.

A combination of theory and experiment is shedding new light on the structural and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters, including cage-like structures that contain other atoms.

The analyses proved that clusters consisting of numbers of particles corresponding to a magic number are indeed more stable, as predicted on the basis of the theory. It is well known that the observed ...