This is because, although formulating the problem of electronic structure is trivial, solving it with reasonable computational resources is known to be exceptionally challenging. The problem is ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

This Perspective explores how the frequency shifts of atomic spectral lines between isotopes can be effective probes of physics beyond the standard model, when measured to high precision using ...

Electronic structure can be shown as a list of numbers or as a diagram. Take lithium for example. The diagram above shows each shell as a circle around the nucleus, with each of the three ...

F iguring out certain aspects of a material's electron structure can take a lot out of a computer—up to a million CPU hours, in fact. A team of Yale researchers, though, are using a type of ...