Partnership at a distance: Deep-frozen helium molecules illuminate quantum-mechanical tunnelling

As atomic physicists have now been able to confirm, over 75 percent of the time helium atoms are so far apart that their bond can be explained only by the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161207124109.htm

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