http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new potential for precision measurements, for example for the determination of gravitational fields. http://www.physorg.com/news172824034.html Physics Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:42:14 EST news172824034 A University of Queensland quantum physicist is applying a new theory to an old problem. http://www.physorg.com/news109348711.html Physics Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:38:31 EST news109348711 (PhysOrg.com) -- When physicists entangle light, they usually use nonlinear crystals as the source. However, it`s difficult to control the entanglement generation process in a bulk crystal, and so scientists have been looking for a more fundamental source of entangled light. Now, they may have found a candidate: Bose-Einstein condensates. http://www.physorg.com/news158408510.html Physics Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:22:27 EST news158408510 In an international first, scientists from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, Austria) produced a Bose-Einstein condensate of the alkaline-earth element strontium, thus narrowly winning an international competition between many first-rate scientific groups. Choosing the isotope 84Sr, which has received little attention so far, proved to be the right choice for the breakthrough. It can now be regarded as an ideal candidate for future experiments with atomic two-electron systems. http://www.physorg.com/news176994672.html Physics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:11:51 EST news176994672 Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible. http://www.physorg.com/news143738245.html Physics Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:17:25 EST news143738245 (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, laser cooling is impractical for some atoms, and it is especially difficult with molecules, limiting the scope of new research." http://www.physorg.com/news172400869.html Physics Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 EST news172400869 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers suggest that quantum mechanics may play a significant role in the workings of the mind and the brain. Quantum consciousness theories have always been controversial, and now a recent study has undercut one more component of these proposals. http://www.physorg.com/news155904395.html Physics Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:47:45 EST news155904395 `Over the years, work on Bose-Einstein condensates, known as BEC, have led to more and more interesting phenomena,` Artur Widera tells PhysOrg.com. `This is because they behave according to quantum mechanics, and are fairly large objects. The goal is to use them to explore opportunities in the quantum regime.` http://www.physorg.com/news128092629.html Physics Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:17:09 EST news128092629 New experimental research shows that half-matter, half-light quasi-particles called polaritons show compelling evidence of Bose-Einstein condensation at the relatively high temperature of 19 degrees Kelvin. The creation of a polariton Bose-Einstein condensate in the solid state provides scientists with a unique opportunity to better understand and possibly exploit the quantum effects that occur in these very special conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news78583540.html Physics Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:45:40 EST news78583540 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 of Bose-Einstein condensates -into a `supersolid,` an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid. While scientists have found evidence for supersolids in complex liquid helium mixtures, a supersolid formed from such weakly interacting gas atoms would be simpler to understand, potentially providing clues for making a host of new `quantum materials` whose bizarre properties could expand physicists` notions of what is possible with matter. http://www.physorg.com/news151090051.html Physics Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:27:31 EST news151090051 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully realized an exotic state, where, due to the laws of quantum mechanics, atoms align along a one-dimensional structure. A stable many-body phase with new quantum mechanical states is thereby produced even though the atoms are usually strongly attracted which would cause the system to collapse. The scientists report on their findings in the leading scientific journal Science. http://www.physorg.com/news171188983.html Physics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:00:02 EST news171188983 A University of Queensland research team has celebrated the end of the Einstein International Year of Physics by developing a ground-breaking theory based on work originated by the great scientist. http://www.physorg.com/news9206.html Physics Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:47:41 EST news9206 Albert Einstein predicted it in 1924 but it wasn't until 1995 that scientists in a Boulder, Colo., laboratory were able to chill atoms to almost absolute zero and create a strange new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate.Now approaching its 10th anniversary, the discovery launched a new field of atomic physics that has spawned about 4,000 scientific papers and a treasure-trove of scientific discoveries. The original apparatus that made the Boulder discovery is now at the Smithsonian Institution. http://www.physorg.com/news4261.html Physics Wed, 25 May 2005 14:46:51 EST news4261 "In nano-sized systems many physical properties are greatly altered from those of macroscopic-sized systems. Therefore, study of nano-sized systems, in general, is very important in developing fundamental physics," Keiya Shirahama tells PhysOrg.com via email. http://www.physorg.com/news131356353.html Physics Fri, 30 May 2008 08:52:33 EST news131356353 (PhysOrg.com) -- Theoretically, quantum computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But quantum methods are experimentally challenging, since they often require tiny, fragile systems that are difficult to handle. http://www.physorg.com/news145535050.html Physics Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:24:10 EST news145535050