News tagged with relaxation time
Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Putting a spin on light and atoms: How to build a better magnetometer
Magnetometers come in many shapes and sizes - an ordinary hand-held compass is the simplest - but alkali-vapor magnetometers are extrasensitive devices that measure magnetic fields using light and atoms. They ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition
Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...
May 13, 2009 |
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