News tagged with free atoms
Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry
(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability ...
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Scientists take another step towards quantum computing using flawed diamonds
(PhysOrg.com) -- David D. Awschalom, of the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, in a paper published recently in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society, describes a way ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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'Superbowl' kicks off drug delivery revolution
Scientists from Australian National University have developed a 'Superbowl' drug delivery system that promises more accurate doses of drugs with fewer side effects.
Sep 14, 2010 |
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World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source
John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Putting artificial atoms on the clock
Around the turn of the century, scientists began to understand that atoms have discrete energy levels. Within the field of quantum physics, this sparked the development of quantum optics in which light is ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Vessel to contain cosmic force takes shape
At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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The interplay of dancing electrons
Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Launch of fourth LCLS instrument reveals crisp, fine molecular detail
The first set of user experiments with the Linac Coherent Light Source's newest instrument is under way, and about 40 researchers are working very long hours this week to decipher the structures of proteins ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Dutch researchers build affordable alternative to mega-laser X-FEL
Stanford University in the USA has an X-FEL (X-ray Free Electron Laser) with a pricetag of hundreds of millions. It provides images of 'molecules in action', using a kilometer-long electron accelerator. Dutch ...
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Jet-propelled Imaging for an Ultrafast Light Source
(PhysOrg.com) -- John Spence, a physicist at Arizona State University, is a longtime user of the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he has contributed to major advances in lensless imaging. ...
Aug 04, 2009 |
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RIKEN, JASRI unveil 'SACLA', Japan's first X-ray free electron laser
RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have cut the ribbon on a new cutting-edge X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility in Harima, the first such facility in Japan and only ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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