Space station experiment reaches ultracold milestone
The International Space Station is officially home to the coolest experiment in space.
Space Exploration
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Ultracold atoms and ultrafast lasers
Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter on very short time scales, whereas ultracold atoms permit experiments with ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 6, 2018
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Quantum LEGO—building ultracold molecules
Cooling matter is not easy. Atoms and molecules have the tendency to jump around, to rotate and to vibrate. Freezing these particles by slowing them down is a complicated process. For individual atoms, physicists have figured ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 12, 2018
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Physicists quantum simulate topological materials with ultracold atoms
Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding complex quantum matter, particularly in classifying topological quantum phases, which have attracted great interests in the recent decade. An outstanding example is the time-reversal ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 14, 2018
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Researchers report the creation of Rydberg polarons in a Bose gas
What is inside an atom between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too? If the electron orbits the nucleus at a great distance, there is plenty of space in between ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 26, 2018
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Four-dimensional physics in two dimensions
For the first time, physicists have built a two-dimensional experimental system that allows them to study the physical properties of materials that were theorized to exist only in four-dimensional space. An international ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 3, 2018
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Physicists find evidence of an exotic state of matter
Using ultracold atoms, researchers at Heidelberg University have found an exotic state of matter where the constituent particles pair up when limited to two dimensions. The findings from the field of quantum physics may hold ...
General Physics
Dec 22, 2017
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Theoretical physicists model complex quantum processes with cold atoms and ions
A group of researchers from Russia, Germany and Iran have developed computational methods toward a theory describing the behavior of cold atoms and ions in optical and electromagnetic traps. Such methods could allow modeling ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 8, 2017
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Ions in the spotlight
The results of a research group from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg has been given a special place in Nature Photonics. An accompanying "News & Views" article in the print version of the science journal ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2017
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New mathematical models could help solve few-body problems in physics
In physics, the conundrum known as the "few-body problem," how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body systems are usually unsolvable ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 1, 2017
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