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Optical refrigeration expected to enhance airborne and spaceborne applications

Under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research, multi-university grant, a team led by University of New Mexico professor, Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae created the first-ever all-solid-state cryocooler that can ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Optical Refrigeration: Researchers Achieve Milestone in Laser Cooling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of New Mexico have established a new low in temperature cooling through laser cooling of solids to cryogenic temperatures. Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast




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Excitons: Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave

Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave.

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Towards hybrid quantum systems

EU-funded scientists made advances in the development of a hybrid quantum system (HQS) by combining different quantum technologies.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Physicists find patterns in new state of matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Into the magnetic blue yonder

Probing the quantum mechanics of magnetism is not for the faint of heart. Literally. The door to Madalina Furis’ laboratory on the fifth floor of the Cook Building has a sign that reads “Stop! No ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state

For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New study proves that much-sought exotic quantum state of matter can exist

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mechanical micro-drum cooled to quantum ground state

Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a flexible, broadly usable ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New test puts the squeeze on horseshoe crabs

If new technology under development proves out, horseshoe crabs will have to undergo fewer blood donations.

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cosmic magnetic fields

The mention of cosmic-scale magnetic fields is still likely to met with an uncomfortable silence in some astronomical circles – and after a bit of foot-shuffling and throat-clearing, the discussion will ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Scientists view a quantum jump in real time

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than two decades, scientists have been "watching" electrons in atoms make the jump between energy levels in real time. "Atoms have energy levels, and when electrons 'jump' from one level to another, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature


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