AlCl has been detected in the atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, which are in the late stages of stellar ...

ThO is a polar molecule that has an extremely large electric dipole moment. This creates a huge “effective electric field” in the vicinity of the electron – much larger than could be applied ...

In an electric field, most of the electrons are oriented so that their dipole moment is parallel to the field. Fewer are oriented in the other direction. This should lead to a measurable ...

No new particles: artist’s impression of how virtual particles could give the electron an electric dipole moment. (Courtesy: Nicolle Fuller/NSF) It is well known that the electron has a magnetic ...

The dipole has a strength, called the dipole moment, depending on how off-centre ... when its spin is in the direction of an external electric field and the other when its spin is aligned opposite ...

What's more, these insulators generate electric quadrupole or octupole ... made it possible to define the dipole moment of a crystal through a particular application of the Berry phase -- a ...

The result came from a search for the so-called electric dipole moment in the electron. A familiar example of a dipole is a bar magnet, which is shaped like a dumbbell with a north and a south pole.

However, we can also find an approximate value for the magnitude of the electric field due to a dipole as long as we are looking at the field along the axis of the dipole or perpendicular to the axis.