Atom and Electron Cloud Alignment

[GoldenAtlantis]

I was wondering if there is a way to align an atoms electron cloud-orbit/probability of location to one side of an electron. For example the probability of the electron being on the closet side or being in a regular area at a regular time. i.e. regular orbit area, and or keeping the electrons on one side of the atom.

If magnetic and/or electromagnetic how strong would the field have to be for a metal plate of copper (any solid) (atom proton with MRI of .2-3 T)?
Phonon vibration adjustments (guessing)?
Any other way that the orbit/cloud could be adjusted?

Thanks

 

[Gokul43201]

Your question isn't very clear but it appears you might want to look up the term polarizability.

 

[JPRitchie]

Chemical bonding also alters the spherical charge distribution of an isolated atom. For example, in ammonia (NH3) there is all kinds of evidence to show that the hydrogens are pointed toward the base of a tetrahedron, the nitrogen is near the center, and a so-called lone pair of electrons points straight up. It is known that ammonia undergoes inversion, wherein the arrangement is inverted. Vast numbers of other examples are known.
-Jim

 

[GoldenAtlantis]

Thanks For the information

I will look into these suggestions. Any other informatin or cites that I can look up would be great. Thanks.

 

[JPRitchie]

Any college freshman chemistry text will have detailed and elementary description of hybridization. Incidentally, I remember a Physical Chemistry lab exercise was to measure the polarizability of a molecule. It uses an alternating electric field.
-Jim

 

[chemisttree]

I was wondering if there is a way to align an atoms electron cloud-orbit/probability of location to one side of an electron. For example the probability of the electron being on the closet side or being in a regular area at a regular time. i.e. regular orbit area, and or keeping the electrons on one side of the atom.

If magnetic and/or electromagnetic how strong would the field have to be for a metal plate of copper (any solid) (atom proton with MRI of .2-3 T)?
Phonon vibration adjustments (guessing)?
Any other way that the orbit/cloud could be adjusted?

Thanks

The magnetic field would only align the proton's and electron's magnetic moments along the field lines, as is done in NMR or MRI. The phonon vibration involves the molecule itself and is a low energy vibration. Electrons will behave as springs in this treatment.

The only effective way to alter the shape of a spherically-uniform electron cloud around the atom is to rehybridize the obital with one or more directional orbitals. The nitrogen example has been given. An example of a directional orbital for nitrogen that does not undergo inversion is pyridine.

Perhaps you are thinking of promoting electrons in semiconductors from valence bands into conduction bands?