Atomic electron transition: Difference between revisions

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Danish physicist [[Niels Bohr]] first theorized that electrons can perform quantum jumps in 1913.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gleick|first=James|date=1986-10-21|title=PHYSICISTS FINALLY GET TO SEE QUANTUM JUMP WITH OWN EYES|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/21/science/physicists-finally-get-to-see-quantum-jump-with-own-eyes.html|access-date=2021-12-06|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Soon after, [[James Franck]] and [[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]] proved experimentally that atoms have quantized energy states.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Franck-Hertz experiment {{!}} physics {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Franck-Hertz-experiment|access-date=2021-12-06|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>

The observability of quantum jumps was predicted by [[Hans Dehmelt]] in 1975, and they were first observed using [[Quadrupole ion trap|trapped ions]] of [[Barium|barium]] at [[University of Hamburg]] and [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] at [[NIST]] in 1986.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=Itano|first1=W. M.|last2=Bergquist|first2=J. C.|last3=Wineland|first3=D. J.|date=2015|title=Early observations of macroscopic quantum jumps in single atoms|url=http://tf.boulder.nist.gov/general/pdf/2723.pdf|journal=International Journal of Mass Spectrometry|volume=377|page=403|bibcode=2015IJMSp.377..403I|doi=10.1016/j.ijms.2014.07.005}}</ref>

== Recent discoveries ==