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- Condensation processes are crucial in nature, impacting both chemistry and physics, particularly at the nanoscale.
- Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers can study condensation atom-by-atom, allowing for high-precision observations of structures formed in defined areas called 'quantum boxes'.
- The analysis demonstrates how different types of interactions influence the structure of these condensates, providing new insights for comparing experimental results with quantum mechanical models, primarily focusing on xenon condensation.
Article Abstract
Condensation processes are of key importance in nature and play a fundamental role in chemistry and physics. Owing to size effects at the nanoscale, it is conceptually desired to experimentally probe the dependence of condensate structure on the number of constituents one by one. Here we present an approach to study a condensation process atom-by-atom with the scanning tunnelling microscope, which provides a direct real-space access with atomic precision to the aggregates formed in atomically defined 'quantum boxes'. Our analysis reveals the subtle interplay of competing directional and nondirectional interactions in the emergence of structure and provides unprecedented input for the structural comparison with quantum mechanical models. This approach focuses on-but is not limited to-the model case of xenon condensation and goes significantly beyond the well-established statistical size analysis of clusters in atomic or molecular beams by mass spectrometry.
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