Science news articles about 'potassium atoms'

... Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vienna University of Technology. Using lasers, the researchers excited potassium atoms to extremely high levels. Using a carefully tailored series of short electric ...

... technique, described in the Aug. 7 issue of Nature,* adapts this technique to study potassium atoms in an ultracold gas. Photoemission spectroscopy is particularly powerful in revealing details of ...

... for the past two decades. Led by Physics Assoc. Prof. Andrea Damascelli, the team deposited potassium atoms onto the surface of a piece of superconducting copper oxide. The ...

... rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap. They selected a laser with a wavelength of light that interacted with the potassium atoms, but had little effect on the rubidium atoms. They then compressed the ...