Sentence examples for by a single atom from inspiring English sources
But laboratories are already experimenting with computers in which a bit is stored by a single atom that can spin clockwise for 1 or counterclockwise for 0. And who is to say that the grain could not someday be even finer with subatomic particles like quarks or gluons or even the hypothetical superstrings harnessed to encode and manipulate information?
Even molecules that differ by a single atom can vibrate quite differently.
Formed by a single atom at the emitter tip, the He probe can be focused to below 0.35 nm offering the highest recorded resolution for secondary electron images.
Model catalytic studies on subnanometer platinum clusters have revealed that changes in particle size by a single atom enable controlling the efficiency and selectivity of a model hydrogenation reaction: ethylene hydrogenation.
Contrary to SCRIPDB, the number of affected substances is dominated by a single atom type: uncharged, tri-coordinated and penta-valent nitrogen, which is present in 79.1% of the affected substances.
And as Darrigol adds, "Considering this distinction there could be no agreement, even asymptotically between the spectrum of radiation emitted by a single atom and the one emitted by the corresponding classical system, since a single atom in a given state could emit only one line.
That state can be probed and measured by sending a single atom through the cavity so that it interacts with the light.
In his review of "The Universe in a Single Atom," by Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama (Sept . 18, George Johnson misconstrues Buddhist notions of causality and human consciousness.
The atomic ensembles are trapped in spatially separated cavities collectively linked to another cavity trapping a single atom by optical fibers.
The reactivity, magnetic properties, electronic structure and optical properties of clusters can change strikingly by adding or removing even a single atom.
But IBM has outdone them all by reading and writing data to a single atom.
