Science news articles about 'cold atoms'

  • Quantum memory and turbulence in ultra-cold atoms

    ... the controllable formation of quantum turbulence in an ultra-cold atom gas. The results, which appear in the July ... turbulence – because it is possible to tune many characteristics of the cold-atom gas. Turbulence is considered a nuisance ...
  • Breakthrough for the quantum simulator: When ultra-cold atoms can be anything

    ... with current technology. The scientists have shown that the level of control needed for such a simulator can be achieved using ultra-cold atoms in a highly excited Rydberg states ...
  • Cold atoms and nanotubes come together in an atomic 'black hole'

    ... at Harvard. "As importantly for scientists, this is the first merging of cold-atom and nanoscale science, and it opens the door ... at Harvard. "This is the first experimental realization of a combined cold atom-nanostructure system. Our system demonstrates ...
  • Developing more accurate cold atom accelerometers

    ... and ESA, has succeeded in developing a vibration-resistant cold atom accelerometer. Tested in parabolic flight ... in the laboratory. This could pave the way for the development of portable cold atom accelerometers and thus improved positioning ...
  • First images of solar system's invisible frontier

    ... ions heated up in the termination that lost their charge to cold atoms in the interstellar medium and, no longer ... in the termination shock exchange charge with the cold, neutral atoms in the interstellar medium to become neutral ...
  • The amazing quantum world of ultra cold matter

    ... Prize. In his talk "Precision Time with Cold Atoms" he described an important application of cold atoms, the realization of ultra precise clocks. Using atomic fountains and microwave radiation, the SI ...
  • Cold atoms explode like cloverleafs

    Spectacular exploding 'bosenovas' seen in clouds of chromium atoms
  • Faux Superconductors Pass a Key Milestone

    Simulations rendered in laser light and cold atoms could someday crack mystery of high-temperature superconductivity
  • Cold atoms could replace hot gallium in focused ion beams

    ... than 1 nanometer. The initial demonstration used chromium atoms, establishing that other elements besides gallium can achieve ... ." The same technique, says McClelland, can be used with a wide variety of other atoms, which could be selected for special tasks such as milling nanoscale ...
  • Cold Atoms Could Replace Hot Gallium In Focused Ion Beams

    Scientists at NIST have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer, a versatile ion source that is expected to have broad application in ...
  • New record for information storage and retrieval lifetime advances quantum networks

    ... information can be stored in and retrieved from an ensemble of very cold atoms. Though the information remains usable ... with another laser. Even though they are very cold, the atoms of the ensemble are free to move in a random ...
  • Physicists discover important step for making light crystals

    ... -- is fast approaching, and the teams have been unable to make the atoms cold enough for their experiments to work. In this week ... Society. Recently, he has worked on the physics of cold atoms in optical lattices, and has pointed out the amount ...
  • A step closer to an ultra precise atomic clock

    ... years – this is the result of new research in ultra cold atoms. The international collaboration is comprised of researchers ... experiments that have given a whole new insight into how cold atoms behave. "It was an fascinating journey into the world ...
  • Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep ... , "is by bouncing them off a surface... most of the time, the atoms are free." He says that scientists have been interested in bouncing ...
  • Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?

    (PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: `You don`t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more ...

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