Cientistas observam átomos girando para trás em experimento quântico

Uma equipe internacional de pesquisadores observou diretamente, pela primeira vez, a transferência de momento angular em um cristal, revelando uma reversão inesperada na direção da rotação atômica. A descoberta, realizada com pulsos de laser de terahertz potentes em seleneto de bismuto, destaca um efeito quântico ligado à simetria do cristal. Os resultados foram publicados na Nature Physics.

O estudo foi liderado por cientistas do Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, do Instituto Fritz Haber da Sociedade Max Planck e parceiros em Berlim, Dresden, Jülich e Eindhoven. Os pesquisadores usaram pulsos de laser ultrarrápidos para induzir vibrações na rede cristalina a um movimento circular e rastrear as interações entre as vibrações acopladas no material.

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