👓 Ah, the thrill of zero-point motion in crystals—because apparently, #physicists ran out of exciting things to study. ⚛️ Watch as they spend countless hours squinting through microscopes at #nanocrystals that glow just enough to make you wish you were reading literally anything else. 💡
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/178 #zeroPointMotion #research #scienceHumor #microscopy #HackerNews #ngated
Zeroing In on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal

A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission, which is shown to arise from quantum fluctuations in the crystal’s atomic lattice.

Physics