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SUBMITTER: Luftner D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3896198 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131216 2
The basis for a quantum-mechanical description of matter is electron wave functions. For atoms and molecules, their spatial distributions and phases are known as orbitals. Although orbitals are very powerful concepts, experimentally only the electron densities and -energy levels are directly observable. Regardless whether orbitals are observed in real space with scanning probe experiments, or in reciprocal space by photoemission, the phase information of the orbital is lost. Here, we show that t ...[more]