Search results for Bose-Einstein condensates
Researchers Create New Form of Matter
May 17, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.
Physicists Unite Light And Matter (Update)
Feb 07, 2007 |
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Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the ...
Matter-antimatter molecules of positronium observed in the lab for the first time
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called ...
Probing Question: Are there upper and lower limits to temperature?
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding ...
Teleportation method proposed by Australian scientists
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Teleportation, a concept popularised in the original Star Trek television series, is edging closer to reality through work being conducted by theorists from The University of Queensland and Australian National ...
Physicists observe new property of matter
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors ...
Raiders of the lost dimension
Jun 01, 2006 |
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Ancient Chinese warriors are yet again helping scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and their collaborators unravel some of the mysteries of the natural world.
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 ...
Detector can count atom by atom
Aug 10, 2006 |
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More than 80 years have passed since Louis de Broglie discovered that matter can act like a wave as well as a particle. With advances in technology, scientists have recently begun exploiting this strange property ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Guiding an Atom Laser
Nov 24, 2006 |
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One of the biggest differences between photons and atoms is that the latter are massive particles, making gravity is a huge factor. It can be seen as an advantage when designing new high accuracy atom interferometers based ...
Trapping Erbium Atoms: The Impossible Made Possible
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Apr 19, 2006 |
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Recycling atoms? Can they do that? In a world where nearly everything can be reused, scientists are moving forward with a novel approach to using Magneto-Optical Traps (MOTs) to, in effect, recycle atoms. In a L ...
Quantum Criticality Found in a Simple Liquid
Sep 07, 2007 |
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A team from the Low Temperature Laboratory, Royal Holloway, University of London, has discovered a breakdown of the standard theoretical model of strongly interacting fermions in liquid 3He films.
