Can Dumbbell-Shaped Orbitals Be Experimentally Confirmed?

[Callaghan]

If you solve the Schrodinger Equation, you will get solution for the equation, which is orbital.

My question is, for example, dumbbell-shaped p-orbitals in hydrogen atoms or other atoms,
is there some expert who visualized this orbitals and confirmed experimentally?

And how can it be confirmed experimentally, that p-orbitals exist in a shape of dumbbell?

 

[atyy]

Orbitals are a particular choice of single electron basis sets, which can be used to make the basis sets for many electrons. The wave function for N electrons is in 3N-dimensional configuration space, so it doesn't have an easy visualization. The wave function for a single electron is in a 3-dimensional configuration space, so it can be visualized as being in space.

http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/courses/chem6485/pdf/basis-sets.pdf

 

[Khashishi]

What does it mean to exist? We can assemble pictures out of statistics of measured data. Does that count?
http://io9.com/the-first-image-ever-of-a-hydrogen-atoms-orbital-struc-509684901
The simple answer is no, they don't exist. They are just idealized models. Does the frictionless mass m (which is so frequently present in undergraduate physics) exist?

 

[Callaghan]

http://io9.com/the-first-image-ever-of-a-hydrogen-atoms-orbital-struc-509684901Yes! this picture is what I am looking for! Thank you very much!