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German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms
Sep 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jumping into the quantum whirlpool
Sep 18, 2007 |
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A University of Queensland quantum physicist is applying a new theory to an old problem.
Entangled Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(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 ...
First Bose-Einstein condensation of strontium
Nov 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Microscopic structure of quantum gases made visible
Oct 20, 2008 |
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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.
Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(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, ...
Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model
Mar 10, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Distinguishing decoherence in quantum systems
Apr 22, 2008 |
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“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 ...
Bose-Einstein condensation in the solid state
Sep 27, 2006 |
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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. ...
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Jan 13, 2009 |
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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 ...
Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers extend Einstein's work
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Dec 20, 2005 |
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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.
Bose-Einstein Condensate Turns 10
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May 25, 2005 |
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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 conden ...
Evidence of a Bose glass state?
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May 30, 2008 |
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"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 ...
Physicists use Bose-Einstein condensates to enhance factoring algorithm
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(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 ...
