This spectacular computer image was produced in 1993 at IBM's Almaden Research Center in California. The 48 peaks forming the circles which is about 14 nm in diameter mark the positions of individual atoms of iron on a specially prepared copper surface. The circle is called a quantum corral. Why is it so called? What are the ripples that are trapped within the corral?



QUANTUM NATURE

Content

  • Quantum wavefunctions
  • The Wonderful Quantum World
  • Physical Reality
  • Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter
  • Biochemistry: The Molecular Nature of Life
  • Organic Chemistry: A Quantum Viewpoint

    • "Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there."
    -Richard Feynman-