News tagged with absolute zero
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'Wedding Cake' Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States
(PhysOrg.com) -- Transitions are exciting. And at temperatures close to absolute zero, studying the transition from one quantum phase to another tantalizes physicists looking for a deeper understanding of ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)
Trapping and cooling a microscopic clump of gas and then suddenly releasing it would normally result in the gas rapidly expanding outward in all directions, like a spherical bubble.
Aug 04, 2009 |
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'Nano violin string' made of vibrating carbon nanotube (w/ Video)
Researchers at TU Delft, The Netherlands, have succeeded in measuring the influence of a single electron on a vibrating carbon nanotube. This research can be important for work such as the development of ultra-small ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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New insights, and a new angle, on high-temperature superconductivity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors. An increased ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Formation of the smallest droplet of acid
Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. This was the result of work by the groups of Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (physical chemistry) ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck
Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2009 |
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Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to New Career
The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of May 12, the telescope is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 06, 2009 |
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If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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Frozen helium-4 may be an unusual 'superglass'
(PhysOrg.com) -- When helium is cooled to around 4 degrees above absolute zero, it turns liquid. Make it a couple of degrees cooler, and it becomes a "superfluid" that flows without resistance from its container, ...
May 01, 2009 |
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A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock
A clock that is so precise that it loses only a second every 300 million years - this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers from the ...
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Physicists discover important step for making light crystals (w/Videos)
Ohio State University researchers have developed a new strategy to overcome one of the major obstacles to a grand challenge in physics.
Apr 09, 2009 |
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