The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Yet theories that include additional, yet-to-be-detected particles predict a much larger dipole moment. Physicists have been searching for this dipole moment for 50 years.

No new particles: artist’s impression of how virtual particles could give the electron an electric dipole moment. (Courtesy: Nicolle Fuller/NSF) The most precise measurement yet of the electron’s ...

A multiferroic material to search for the permanent electric dipole moment of the electron. Nature Materials, 2010; DOI: 10.1038/nmat2799 ...

Monitoring precession: The researchers measured the electron electric dipole moment in hafnium fluoride ions confined within an ion trap. (Courtesy: Casey Cass/University of Colorado) Physicists at ...

In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane at the University of California, Riverside, have successfully measured the ...