News tagged with neutralization

A magnetic approach to lattices

(Phys.org) -- JQI experimentalists under the direction of Ian Spielman are in the business of using lasers to create novel environments for neutral atoms. For instance, this research group previously enticed ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eye on ionization: Visualizing and controlling bound electron dynamics in strong laser fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Subatomic events can be remarkably counterintuitive. Such is the case in theoretical physics when, under certain specific conditions, atoms exposed to intense infrared laser pulses remain ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

A milestone for molecular beams

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of molecular collisions, we often consider massive colliders, like the LHC, sending particles smashing into each other at very high energies. While this is interesting work, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Atomtronics: A new phase

Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exotic new matter expected in ultracold atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists isolate, hold, photograph individual Rubidium 85 atom

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major physics breakthrough, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom - and have also seen and photographed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Recalculating the distance to interstellar space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Quantum quirk: Scientists pack atoms together to prevent collisions in atomic clock

In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties' (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The unusual "knot" in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to have "untied," according to a paper ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Basic quantum computing circuit built

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicist tackles atomtronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Atomtronics is a relatively new science devoted to creating artificial tailored materials consisting of neutral atoms held in an array with laser beams, or atoms moving along a desired track under electric ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Verizon sues to overturn 'net neutrality' rules

Verizon Communications, the largest U.S. cell phone carrier, is suing to overturn new government regulations governing the flow of Internet traffic.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Neuroscientists Show How Brain Stores Memories of Specific Fears

(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found. The study, which ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Whose Internet is it, anyway?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, broke with precedent by proposing federal rules that enforce Net neutrality -- the principle that ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1