The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Heterogeneous catalysis is a type of catalysis in which the catalyst occupies a different phase from the reactants and products. This may refer to the physical phase — solid, liquid or gas ...

The RRI team, led by Dr. Saptarishi Chaudhuri from the Quantum Mixtures (QuMIX) lab, conducted experiments on neutral potassium atoms trapped in a Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT). The MOT, which employs ...