News tagged with ultracold gas
Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Scientists have been making Bose-Einstein Condensates [BECs] for nearly 15 years," Charlie Doret tells PhysOrg.com. "Essentially all BEC research to date, however, begins with laser cooling. Unfortunately, ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Physicists find new parallel between cold gases and 'hot' superconductors
Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple ...
Jul 08, 2010 |
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Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold “boson” atoms—the ingredients ...
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Seeing the quantum in chemistry: Scientists control chemical reactions of ultracold molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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A microscopic view on quantum fluctuations
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics achieve direct imaging of quantum fluctuations at absolute zero temperature.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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