Left-handed Electrons - Sixty Symbols

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Sixty Symbols

Sixty Symbols

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A new paper on the chirality of electrons in graphene.
Discussed by Professor Laurence Eaves, one of the co-authors.
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@12tone
@12tone 9 жыл бұрын
It's nice to see Professor Eaves again. He's always been one of my favorite presenters, and he hasn't really been around much in these lately. Really interesting stuff, and well-explained.
@stephenstreet1045
@stephenstreet1045 3 жыл бұрын
I love hearing Professor Eaves speak, partly because he is a great communicator but also because I love to hear a top member of academia speaking in the Rhondda valleys accent. The professor was born just around the corner from me. Expectations are fairly low in the valleys but Professor Eaves gives me great hope that even folk from the valleys can excel.
@jaidenvicente7200
@jaidenvicente7200 3 жыл бұрын
Sorry to be off topic but does anybody know of a trick to log back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost my password. I would love any tricks you can offer me!
@sethroyal1983
@sethroyal1983 3 жыл бұрын
@Jaiden Vicente instablaster =)
@cassandra5322
@cassandra5322 9 жыл бұрын
I want to be an electron in my next life and spook scientists out.
@omegasrevenge
@omegasrevenge 8 жыл бұрын
Or a bacterium without a Hayflick-limit :D
@davep8221
@davep8221 3 жыл бұрын
cassandra5322 - I want to be an anti-electron and hide out with all of the other antiparticles and confound cosmologists everywhere.
@bobert6259
@bobert6259 4 ай бұрын
Watch out, you may literally have no size
@EugeneKhutoryansky
@EugeneKhutoryansky 9 жыл бұрын
Great video, but I would take issue with the explanation of “borrowing energy” and using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to explain quantum tunneling. Quantum tunneling is just due to the fact that although the wave function decays in a region where the function for potential energy is higher than the energy of the particle, the wave function does not decay all the way to zero. Therefore there is a non-zero probability of the particle makes it through the barrier. Also, I am concerned that the title of this video may make people think that left-handedness is an intrinsic property of the electron, as opposed to something that arises from the structure of the material it is in.
@teekanne15
@teekanne15 9 жыл бұрын
+Eugene Khutoryansky Yea through most of the video I though that this would be some property that every electron has. Too bad he explained it only in the end that this is something "arise[ing] from the structure of the material it is in". Great video as always tho
@zimty151
@zimty151 9 жыл бұрын
+Eugene Khutoryansky Maybe it was a bit confusing what he said, but chirality is an intrinsic property of particles. It's a very interesting property too, for example, a part of the weak interaction only works with left handed particles. This is why Neutrinos are left handed.
@IamGrimalkin
@IamGrimalkin 9 жыл бұрын
When he is talking about "electrons" in graphene, he is talking about electron quasiparticles. It's not just the chirality which is based on the structure of the lattice, so is the effective mass for example.
@LordVoidFury
@LordVoidFury 9 жыл бұрын
+Zimty I think what +Eugene Khutoryansky is referring to here about the title is that the title might lead the less informed viewer to think that left-handed electrons are fundamentally different particles from their right-handed versions, as opposed to the chirality just being an intrinsic property of the electrons, which was the intended interpretation.
@bxyify
@bxyify 8 жыл бұрын
+Eugene Khutoryansky Yes you are right, the tunneling is a result of the probability that an electron can be located behind the energy-wall it would have to take "classical" to reach the other side. The probability is tiny but it's there and so it happen's that you find a few electrons on the "wrong" side if you attempt to measure them there. I don't see how they borrow the energy since they don't need the energy at all in the wave function of probable locations.
@scott98390
@scott98390 9 жыл бұрын
Respectfully, Professor, I must disagree. My golf balls experience tunneling quite often - that's why I can never find the little buggers, I'm sure. :-)
@MrKillermeatball
@MrKillermeatball 9 жыл бұрын
+Scott Baker you deserve more upvotes
@STOG01
@STOG01 9 жыл бұрын
+Scott Baker Some fish on the Southern side of New Zealand (opposite side of the planet from the UK) are doing some major golfing on your account.
@cassandra5322
@cassandra5322 9 жыл бұрын
+Scott Baker DAD JOKE OF THE YEAR
@scott98390
@scott98390 9 жыл бұрын
***** Dude, that's awesome.
@Triantalex
@Triantalex 2 ай бұрын
??
@RimstarOrg
@RimstarOrg 9 жыл бұрын
Interesting. It looks like the transistor will be able to work in either direction, depending only on the way the voltage is applied.
@michal.gawron
@michal.gawron 3 жыл бұрын
You can already swap C and E in most bipolar transistors, however the gain will be reduced. There's certain assymetry in how they're made.
@HiAdrian
@HiAdrian 9 жыл бұрын
I think he's the only one of the speakers/professors who doesn't distract me with his presence (my fault maybe). I could completely focus on the content of his message.
@williamcollyer8451
@williamcollyer8451 9 жыл бұрын
I must admit, given I understand quite a lot of the content provided by sixty symbols, this went straight over my head.
@tassiehandyman3090
@tassiehandyman3090 6 жыл бұрын
As an umpire of local league cricket, I very much appreciate the shout out. Thank you, professor! 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏
@Mandragara
@Mandragara 9 жыл бұрын
I physically moaned in pleasure upon seeing the length and topic of this video
@st3altypandas63
@st3altypandas63 7 жыл бұрын
Mandragara this...... is a great comment
@Madoc_EU
@Madoc_EU 9 жыл бұрын
Whoa, it's awesome that you now publish a video about a scientific work before it's even out there!
@PopeLando
@PopeLando 8 жыл бұрын
One of the first books that made me interested in science was The Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac Asimov, one of his collections of science essays.
@maurod6180
@maurod6180 Жыл бұрын
THANKS FOR SHARING THIS INTERVIEW!!! GREAT CHANNEL!!!
@justupostear3571
@justupostear3571 8 жыл бұрын
This is truly amazing research and amazing explanations. I'll just pop on over to Nottingham to audit all your classes!
@yuotwob3091
@yuotwob3091 6 жыл бұрын
A wall with height and thickness. A ball goves over, thus overcomes that potential (energy barrier). A ball (canon) goes through with requires more energy but this is like the electrovoltaic effect, dislogding bits of wall and replacing with ordnance.
@brendawilliams8062
@brendawilliams8062 3 жыл бұрын
It’s something the material is new to the scene. Measurement is an exciting thing.
@PrasadVandavasi
@PrasadVandavasi 8 жыл бұрын
Kookaburra at 2:20 This should be the thumbnail :D
@michal.gawron
@michal.gawron 3 жыл бұрын
I think chirality can be compared to a thread on a screw. It can be left or right handed. For a particle the complex value of a wave function when plotted in 3D space along the direction of particle's movement line can also be left or right-handed.
@wtfpwnz0red
@wtfpwnz0red 3 жыл бұрын
I would contend that classical particles do engage in a sort of tunneling. If you pull back one bead on a Newton's cradle and release it, it stops against the "surface" of the resting beads and a bead on the other end "jumps" out of formation. Are we sure that these moving electrons are actually "tunneling" through materials placed between graphene, or do you have an electron on one side that occasionally impacts the substrate with just the right energy and momentum to cause a cascade effect, implanting itself in the substrate and popping an electron off the other side with an energy equivalent to that which was put in originally?
@lennutrajektoor
@lennutrajektoor 9 жыл бұрын
I just love him & his work. More please.
@MrAlbedo39
@MrAlbedo39 9 жыл бұрын
This video just made the video of Andre Geim's 2011 graphene talk from the Institute of Physics a heck of a lot more understandable for me. :) Prof. Eaves gave a very good explanation.
@albeeman
@albeeman 9 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your video and you clear presentation style. I learned a lot, thank you, Professor Laurence Eaves. May chirality always be with you! Best regards, Al Beeman Hilo, HI
@Cypekeh
@Cypekeh 3 жыл бұрын
physicists are like video game glitch finders in real life
@ericjane747
@ericjane747 9 жыл бұрын
What a great communicator
@planetnicky11
@planetnicky11 7 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! I just took intro to quantum and special relativity at my university and we learned a little about the time-independent Schrodinger's Eq. I must say I got chills when you said the electrons could tunnel between the graphene layers. Tell me how thin must the barrier be for the electrons to tunnel through from top g layer to the bottom g layer? And please tell me if its not unreasonable to think this kind of transistor has potential application to the future of computers maybe quantum computers? Thanks!
@danielyount9812
@danielyount9812 8 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video as always form you all. Keep them coming.
@12Rman21
@12Rman21 9 жыл бұрын
interesting, but dense, hard to wrap my head around what he was trying to make clear.
@CasualSandre
@CasualSandre 9 жыл бұрын
+12Rman21 Probably because 50% of what he talked about actually had to do with chemistry than physics.
@Spiderboydk
@Spiderboydk 9 жыл бұрын
+The Sandre Guy I have just watched the first half, but until now he has talked almost exclusively about quantum mechanics and solid state physics, which isn't chemistry at all.
@teekanne15
@teekanne15 9 жыл бұрын
+Claus Jensby Madsen Does it matter tho, what name you give the subject? The things hes talking about are important in chemistry and physics. Even I as a geologist deal with stuff like this.
@Spiderboydk
@Spiderboydk 9 жыл бұрын
+teekanne15 I don't care much whether something is labeled or not, but I care if something is mislabeled.
@CasualSandre
@CasualSandre 9 жыл бұрын
Claus Jensby Madsen Quantum mechanics is an integral part in both physics and chemistry. Actually *most* of what he talked about could be classified as physical chemistry. Also I think you're missing the whole part about chemical bonds and the molecular structure of graphene ;)
@vikipoyta
@vikipoyta 9 жыл бұрын
I find the sound of him dragging the cricket ball across the graphene really satisfying for some weird reason :)
@Imunclean
@Imunclean 3 жыл бұрын
I feel like i would be unstoppable if this man was my professor.
@ShapeDoppelganger
@ShapeDoppelganger 9 жыл бұрын
Wow, this one was one of the best on the topic. Really liked it.
@neiletnyre950
@neiletnyre950 9 жыл бұрын
Great Video. But I was just curious how do "they" know that the electrons coming out the "bottom" of the hBN aren't different electrons? I.E. were they free electrons dragged away from the garphene by negative voltage applied?
@pbp6741
@pbp6741 9 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
@MrSonny6155
@MrSonny6155 6 жыл бұрын
For a rule of thumb, a left hand is like a right hand rule, where you turn your hand around a 180. I know, it's hard to understand left handedness as a right hander.
@badpexalpha2873
@badpexalpha2873 3 жыл бұрын
I love this channel I love all of you guys thank you so much! But you said a electron can borrow energy to quantum tunnel the Barrier, and then it pays back that energy once it’s on the other side. My question is, where does that energy come from(the environment?) to pay back the energy loan if it’s spent the borrowed energy to pass through the barrier. So it would need to “earn”new energy to pay for the borrowed that the electron spent quantum tunneling the barrier, right? This is why I really prefer the plasma/electric universe model where quantum tunneling can be described as a dipole interaction. Where the initial borrowed energy forces the particles to flip polarity or “spin flip” (“likes like likes”)and then it can be attracted or propelled through the material instead of repelled. Then the energy is spent and the electron settles down to its base polarity and spin state. I mean I’m paraphrasing but that seemed to be the rough idea. It makes sense to me and it does it without using mysterious quantum means.
@DrRChandra
@DrRChandra 9 жыл бұрын
You're right, we Americans by-and-large have never heard of those terms, although in baseball I think the analogy might be the curveball and the screwball, where the pitched ball undergoes the Magnus effect but curve- and screw- go in opposite horizontal directions (as seen by the batter, catcher, and home plate umpire) because the spin is exactly opposite.
@cadr003
@cadr003 9 жыл бұрын
this might be the best way to make an analogy about it
@ramirolaborda5557
@ramirolaborda5557 9 жыл бұрын
incredibly easy to follow and understand! Thanks for this video!
@sagarbhingare3308
@sagarbhingare3308 4 жыл бұрын
Great Video. Thank you
@ButzPunk
@ButzPunk 9 жыл бұрын
Kinda off-topic, but the talk of these graphene/boron nitride transistors got me thinking: how far off are these kinds of transistors from being used in electronic circuitry? Are they even useful for electronics?
@LordVoidFury
@LordVoidFury 9 жыл бұрын
+Ben Rowe My best guess is quite far off, if it can even be done. I think the largest problem is that the tunneling is probabilistic, and even if you don't apply a voltage (which would effectively cut off current flow in transistors used commercially today) there is still a decent chance that electrons will pass through. The transistors that we have working for us today are a lot bigger (meaning significantly lower chance of tunneling) and in the 'on' state, they let through tons of electrons, and in the case of tunneling in the 'off' position the quantity of electrons let through by the lowered tunneling chance are *very* much negligible.
@stumbling
@stumbling 9 жыл бұрын
+Voidfury Yes, but on the other hand you would have many, many more graphene transistors. They would be ideal for robust-first computer architecture.
@LordVoidFury
@LordVoidFury 9 жыл бұрын
Ooh, you raise a very good point, but I wonder just how much use we would get out of making each transistor less dependable and just adding more of them. I guess only time will tell.
@hjembrentkent6181
@hjembrentkent6181 7 жыл бұрын
If you have to do a lot of error correcting because of tunnelling it's not going to be a efficient or reliable system. Nope, i'm guessing we're going to be stuck with 7nm or maybe 5nm transistors for a long time, maybe forever.
@rickhobson3211
@rickhobson3211 2 жыл бұрын
I would like to propose that, if there is a unit of measurement unique to Landau states, that it should be named the "Martin."
@edthoreum7625
@edthoreum7625 7 жыл бұрын
excellent thanks for sharing 12:00 gloves 15:20 mirror image
@georgeridgard8084
@georgeridgard8084 9 жыл бұрын
I bloody love these videos
@mendali
@mendali 9 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why the carbon atoms are only bonded to three other atoms. What about the additional valence electron? Is that why the graphene conducts electricity?
@Fischmiep
@Fischmiep 9 жыл бұрын
+mendali The extra elctron is delocalized. You can imagine it by the atoms having a p-orbital that's perpendicular to the plane. When two p-orbitals are overlapping they can form a bond since they share the electron pair (that's how double and triple bonds are forming). If you bring in another p-orbital it's overlapping with the other two as well so the electrons can move there as well and you can't really tell where exactly they are anymore. Now you can bring in more and more atoms with p-orbitals and more and more electrons get delocalized. Since you can't tell where exactly they are anymore you speak of graphene having an electron "cloud". My explanation might not be exactly correct but i hope i could get the image across :)
@Reggiland
@Reggiland 9 жыл бұрын
+mendali some great explanations here but put simply: yes (i think, i'm only an A level student so i don't know what has been simplified for us or not)
@IamGrimalkin
@IamGrimalkin 9 жыл бұрын
+Reggie land If you're doing a-level chemistry, it's like the pi-ring in benzene.
@Reggiland
@Reggiland 9 жыл бұрын
i wasnt sure but i assumed it was something like that. thanks :)
@Godlessfuture
@Godlessfuture 9 жыл бұрын
+Reggie land The oversimplified but straight to the point answer: the 'leftover' pair is a double bond. So when you look at that model he holds up, you are in fact seeing four bonds for each carbon. Most model kits it's redundant to explicitly show double and triple bonds when building a large molecules, so they don't show them as they're considered to be understood. Btw, the more complicated answers prior to mine referring to delocalization, when you have a network of alternating double and single bonds (plus a few other criteria), every bond in the network becomes what you could call (very loosely speaking) a 1.5 bond; effectively the network is like one large bond with no separate pieces.
@arrowed_sparrow1506
@arrowed_sparrow1506 5 жыл бұрын
You explained everything perfectly, and the visual helped out a lot. I don't understand most of it, or all of it... I guess I'm just uncertain about the whole thing... Get it... because uncertainty principle... Ok I'm done.
@DavidBylsma
@DavidBylsma 9 жыл бұрын
I love this subject matter - thanks for uploading
@DrRChandra
@DrRChandra 9 жыл бұрын
Carbon can ordinarily bond with 4 atoms, and taking a look at that model, each carbon has 3 represented bonds. Are each of those unit cells like benzene rings, where there are alternating single and double bonds?
@Fischmiep
@Fischmiep 9 жыл бұрын
+rchandraonline They behave pretty much like benzene rings just that there are no hydrogens on the carbons since they are bonded to other carbons. However it's not like there are alternating double and single bonds but the extra electrons are delocalized (just like they are in benzene). I gave a more detailed explanation in an answer to +mendali 's question.
@rogerdotlee
@rogerdotlee 9 жыл бұрын
Oh dear. Now I have to go to the brain doctor and get my brain stapled back together. Another fine video that leaves me with a burning desire to go through this one a few more times.
@PrivateSi
@PrivateSi 4 жыл бұрын
Nice explantion of chiralty at the end, about it being an effect of the medium structure. I was wondering how something could have spin up or down and left or right!
@Variety_Pack
@Variety_Pack 4 жыл бұрын
I like this guy. His office is a total mess, just like my house. Glad to know success doesn't have to be organized.
@qazsertyer
@qazsertyer 9 жыл бұрын
There is a little mistake but i'm sure that the profesor made it intentionally trying to simplify, I remember a video where prof. Moriarty said "Spin is not spin, is an intrinsic property of the electron". It'd be better if you put an annotation in min 2:55.
@MrBonners
@MrBonners 6 жыл бұрын
Is there a relationship of the lattice sheet's alignment and what left or right electron will tunnel? If so then two different data streams could be carried at near light speed. If you can contain the left and right electrons on either side then you have a very fast memory cell. There is also a new digital construct. A left holding cell and a right holding cell and an empty cell. Tri-state logic at near light speed.
@michaelgonzalez9058
@michaelgonzalez9058 10 ай бұрын
Use a magnet reppelent sequence
@LarsRichterMedia
@LarsRichterMedia 9 жыл бұрын
I've read so many times that the "spin" property of an electron doesn't describe a physical rotation (like a ball spinning on it's axis). Can someone elaborate on this? The prof. made it look like "spin" would be a physical rotation... was it just for simplification?
@EntropicNightmare
@EntropicNightmare 9 жыл бұрын
+Lars Richter Yes, that was a simplification. That's a pretty common way to describe it because it appeals to our physical intuition. In actuality, spin is an intrinsic property of the electron (and other particles) which does not correspond to the particle's motion.
@unvergebeneid
@unvergebeneid 9 жыл бұрын
+Ada Warren But then, what would a spinning electron even look like? It's perfectly symmetrical in all directions so rotating it is kind of a no-op, isn't it?
@johnpetersen5341
@johnpetersen5341 9 жыл бұрын
+Penny Lane Even for traditional rotation, symmetry doesn't mean the rotation isn't there.
@unvergebeneid
@unvergebeneid 9 жыл бұрын
John Petersen Non-elementary particles are never truly symmetric though, are they?
@johnpetersen5341
@johnpetersen5341 9 жыл бұрын
+Penny Lane I didn't think that was the question. If you really want me to ruin the fun, electrons don't "look like" anything, and neither does spin.
@henrykotze7985
@henrykotze7985 9 жыл бұрын
so your measurements does not effect if the electron in the left-hand/right-hand states? Meaning, allowing the phenomenon to occur that the electron is in both states ? In the left hand and not in the left hand. In the right hand and not in the right hand? or in the left hand and right hand.
@MrHeroicDemon
@MrHeroicDemon 4 жыл бұрын
If this guy was a Super Villain in Gotham, rather than MrFreeze he'd be MrEnergy
@mojosbigsticks
@mojosbigsticks 8 жыл бұрын
Electrons have come a long way since I did 'A' levels. More please.
@jiminylummox9352
@jiminylummox9352 9 жыл бұрын
If you made a square grid lattice instead of a hexagonal one, would that eliminate the chirality behaviour?
@pherickniartallagh2813
@pherickniartallagh2813 7 жыл бұрын
the chirality of the nodes in the lattice gives rise to (causes) the chirality of the electrons, or exposes the chirality of the electrons?
@BarryKort
@BarryKort 7 жыл бұрын
When there is a magnetic field applied, wouldn't the electrons experience Larmor precession, much like protons in an MRI machine? Is that a factor in chirality?
@shannonchuprevich3021
@shannonchuprevich3021 5 жыл бұрын
Graphene could work like a nerve or a neural network if you could add other elements into and on it's lactic to trigger and direct a piezoelectric effect.
@goyabee3200
@goyabee3200 9 жыл бұрын
I think the animation was a little bit off towards the end. The directions the hands were travelling in were quite different from the picture Laurence was explaining.
@luis5d6b
@luis5d6b 9 жыл бұрын
Excelent as always thank you.
@NATESUCKSATGAMING
@NATESUCKSATGAMING 6 жыл бұрын
Wait. So basically the graphene thing is an atomic transistor?? So it's binary level computing but on an atomic scale?. That's lit.
@hendrikhendrikson2941
@hendrikhendrikson2941 9 жыл бұрын
As always... Interesting stuff !
@pencilpen786
@pencilpen786 9 жыл бұрын
We should have a video on superconductivity Brady. Plz
@MrBrain4
@MrBrain4 6 жыл бұрын
I didn't really understand the difference between left- and right-handed electrons from the explanation given. Wouldn't any electron traveling across the hexagonal lattice travel through atoms identified as having horizontal bonds in both directions?
@ArcherKam
@ArcherKam 9 жыл бұрын
Cricket and physics, a match made in heaven!
@DMitsukirules
@DMitsukirules 9 жыл бұрын
He said scotch tape method as if it was super technical but isn't that just peeling away graphine with scotch tape?
@scott98390
@scott98390 9 жыл бұрын
+DMitsuki Indeed it is. The method won a Nobel Prize in 2010, by the way.
@joshajohnson
@joshajohnson 9 жыл бұрын
+caino666 I think it was made as a joke, such a simple method to produce the result.
@joeysaha
@joeysaha 9 жыл бұрын
+DMitsuki How did he make it sound super technical? :S
@qatestbrian1
@qatestbrian1 3 жыл бұрын
Did he 2 dimensional? How can a sheet of graphene be 2 dimensional? What a universe we live in. I love these guys.
@hardnrg8000
@hardnrg8000 2 жыл бұрын
It's still 3 dimensional of course, but meaning that the electrons movements will be in the lattice and since it is 1 atom thick, it wont move to the 3rd dimension (not much anyway) unless it tunnels to the other side.
@discountconsulting
@discountconsulting 9 жыл бұрын
The electron must 'sense' the contours of the lattice in terms of a charge-topography determined by uneven distribution of negative and positive charge according to the shape of the bonds relative to the shape of the protonic charge emanating from the nuclei. In a dipolar molecule like water, charge distribution is uneven due to unequal charge and inertia of the oxygen and hydrogen nuclei; but in graphene, the atoms are all carbon and the bond lattice seems to be symmetrical so you would expect charge distribution to be more even. However, because Lorentz' force causes charged particles to deflect perpendicularly to direction of a magnetic field line, there must be free charge present that interacts with magnetic field lines also present. My question is in regards to the ability of the graphene to absorb energy from electrons and/or photons passing through it. Are the bonds so symmetrical and evenly distributed that their ability to absorb and diffuse energy inputs effectively prevents the bonds from ever being broken? I.e. is there any way to decompose graphene and/or somehow get the atoms to recombine with other atoms? Or is graphene like some kind of ultimate carbon ash whose bonds can never be broken until they are crushed together with the protons in an electron-degeneracy event, such as by falling into a neutron star?
@TheSidyoshi
@TheSidyoshi 9 жыл бұрын
Maybe a stupid question, but the molecular image of the graphene, and the plastic model shown by the prof don't match. Why is that? There are no hexagons in the molecular image...
@pppppaaaaaccccchhh
@pppppaaaaaccccchhh 9 жыл бұрын
So chirality is a property of the electron but in the case of a graphene lattice it manifests itself in the form of left-handedness and right-handedness?
@Etothe2iPi
@Etothe2iPi 9 жыл бұрын
Doesn't the chirality come from the fact that the carbon valence electrons actually form a tetrahedron (instead of the mercedes brand shown in the video)?
@kashmirha
@kashmirha 5 жыл бұрын
I really love professor Laurence Eaves. Not that I did not like all the others :D
@alphalunamare
@alphalunamare Жыл бұрын
If you had a letter A painted on your quantum cricket ball and tunnelling occurred would the cricket ball on the other side necessarily have the same label? In other words has an electron tunnelled or has one vanished and another appeared a certain distance away?
@adamdude
@adamdude 9 жыл бұрын
How do they know it is quantum tunneling and not just the fact that there are spaces between the boron and nitrogen atoms that would permit the electrons to go through?
@damianvila
@damianvila 9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. What a fascinating subject, and masterfully explained. This channel is one of the best I've seen. Kudos.
@chrismusix5669
@chrismusix5669 8 жыл бұрын
The Landau levels: well spaced, higher up you go more closely bunched up - kinda of like musical harmonic series?
@dattebenforcer
@dattebenforcer 9 жыл бұрын
How do the properties of graphene differ under extreme cooling conditions?
@murdakah
@murdakah 7 жыл бұрын
I dont get the difference between Chirality and spin, unless by that they mean that spin they mean it is arbitrary which you shoose as up or down. If i understand correctly, Chirality is absolute whilst spin is relative, in other words, whatever direction your instrument is set up in?
@InternetStranger476
@InternetStranger476 9 жыл бұрын
very interesting
@lohphat
@lohphat 8 жыл бұрын
I thought the drift velocity was very slow, like 80 cm/h. It's the impulse velocity which is 1000 km/s
@tokajileo5928
@tokajileo5928 7 жыл бұрын
matter and antimatter annihilate when they meet. a proton is a matter a positron is an antimatter,. what happens if they meet? if they annihilate what happens to the 2 positive charges?
@HenryGhoul
@HenryGhoul 6 жыл бұрын
So an Electrons in an atom can’t be on the same exited level that’s occupied by another electron? And what’s the maximum number of electrons an atom can have?
@m4c13k86
@m4c13k86 9 жыл бұрын
I get how the electrons are different on the lattice, but I can see 6 different types, or 3 if you rule out the symetric cases. Where 2 comes from (right & left) ?
@SeraphimKnight
@SeraphimKnight 9 жыл бұрын
+m4c13k86 If you look at the 6 types they're really just 2 types rotated at different angles (0, 60, -60). It's the 60 degree angles that gives it that chirality, since the 3 that are right or left-handed clearly have preferential directions.
@IsYitzach
@IsYitzach 9 жыл бұрын
That's Sean isn't? I thought I heard heard him at 1:18.
@Faxter313
@Faxter313 9 жыл бұрын
It sounds like lef- or right-handedness is an intrinsic property of the electron. But if I understood it right (I probably didn't), the property arises by moving through a structure. Would that mean that this property could have 3 possible values, if the electron would be moving in a 3-dimensional structure?
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
+Faxter313 No, due to the way it arises it has two possible values, unless you also count 'zero' as a value in which case you can have three values in both 2D and 3D materials.
@kcthewanderer
@kcthewanderer 9 жыл бұрын
Chirality. Cool word. Clear as mud. Is there a pattern to chirality within the lattice? In other words, do the spins work like adjacent gears? Looking forward to the additional footage.
@morlanius
@morlanius 9 жыл бұрын
I thought electron spin didn't have anything to do with a physical rotation, its pretty much just the name of a quantum value.
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
+Morlanius It does in fact relate to angular momentum, like actual physical spinning. If an electron gave you its spin you'd start spinning a tiny bit. However because of what particles are they themselves can't spin in the way we understand it.
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
avicenna See now that is interesting. Do you have a more detailed explanation or link to one? I should much like a clearer explanation than the ones I have been given before.
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
avicenna Do you have that article? I've pretty much seen your heuristic explanation elsewhere excepting the last paragraph which is where I suspect the weakness in my thinking lies.
@isodoublet
@isodoublet 9 жыл бұрын
Gareth Dean Just google "spin ohanian". For me it's the first result.
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
avicenna Many thanks.
@varundarbhamalla3325
@varundarbhamalla3325 5 жыл бұрын
I have a question that if you rotate the whole graphene sheet, wont the perspective change ? I mean left might become right and right might become left ? Does that mean that the left handedness and right handedness depends on the position and our perspective in which we are watching the electron to go ? @sixtysymbols
@CamTechBricks
@CamTechBricks 6 жыл бұрын
What's the difference between graphene and graphite? (I'm guessing the bonding)?
@BeCurieUs
@BeCurieUs 8 жыл бұрын
So to keep its formal charge low, doesn't carbon normally want to form 4 bonds, not 3?
@HenryGhoul
@HenryGhoul 6 жыл бұрын
8:30 quantum tunneling sounds super interesting
@michaelsheffield6852
@michaelsheffield6852 9 жыл бұрын
I love that there is physicist fan boy with autographed pictures from other physicist.m
@Ryan-9000
@Ryan-9000 9 жыл бұрын
"I'm on about electrons butt"
@douro20
@douro20 2 жыл бұрын
I wish they still made tunnel diodes.
@lordicemaniac
@lordicemaniac 9 жыл бұрын
so this chirality property manifests only in hexagonal crystal structure? so for example in square crystal structure there would not be any chirality of electrons?
@garethdean6382
@garethdean6382 9 жыл бұрын
+lordicemaniac No, what matters is limiting the way electrons can travel so this chirality manifests. Even in most hexagonal crystals electrons have no chirality.
@MANU123423
@MANU123423 6 жыл бұрын
Professor, can you give us a comparison of switching speed and operating voltages? Is this better than the best silicon transistors?
@lukabc31
@lukabc31 5 жыл бұрын
I think that right handed electron is positron.. And would be only attracted to antiproton.. In magnetic field it would head the oposite side then left handed electron.. So I think you would not see both left and right handed electrons in the lattice.. anybody disagree?
@stchew49
@stchew49 6 жыл бұрын
How sure are we that the left-handed and right-handed electrons are the same electron?
@racketti
@racketti 8 жыл бұрын
Could you please explain the Scharnhorst effect? Thanks!
@leander905
@leander905 9 жыл бұрын
I´d love a video about atomic clocks (and optical clocks). It´s a very interesting topic :)
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