What does EC stand for?

Electron Cloud

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The laser causes an electron in the quantum dot to jump to a higher energy level, leaving behind a charged hole in the electron cloud.

Lasers can be used to lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times

The spacecraft is positively charged against an electron cloud surrounding the craft, and with a magnetic field of the order 10,000 Gauss, easily reached by superconducting currents flowing in an azimuthal direction, it is insulated against the electron cloud up to GeV potentials.

United States: Micro-Fusion For Space Propulsion and Weapons with ...

Vocabulary Answers: 1) An electron cloud is electrons circling the nucleus of an atom.

The atom

Good confinement of significant amounts of electrons has been achieved, and it appears that the toroidal electron cloud satisfies the plasma criterion.

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The powerful electric field of the laser shot yanks a portion of the outermost electron cloud out of the molecule and then forcefully shoves it back in again.

Molecular anatomy revealed: CT scans for molecules show the gauzy ...

They have very little weight, but the electron cloud (the ball-shaped area where they move around the nucleus) makes up most of the volume of the atom.

What we're made of

The model is based on first-principles, quantum mechanical calculations that follow the changes in the electron clouds surrounding the molecular backbone when a voltage is applied across a molecule.

Molecular-electronics theorist proposes mechanism for molecular ...

That bound state is similar to the electron cloud formed around a hydrogen atom, and is called "positronium," Ps (many papers refer to this as a positronium atom, despite the fact that it has no nucleus).

A review of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy as applied to ...