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Bouncing atoms may be the key to the future of gravimetry
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When studying cold atoms, scientists often use magnetic or optical traps to keep the atoms in place. However, in some cases experimentalists want to study free atoms, avoiding the effects of a trap. "One ...
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Italian scientists build atomic laser
Jul 06, 2007 |
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Italian scientists said they have discovered how to achieve an "atomic laser" envisioned by Albert Einstein in 1925.
Bouncing Bucky Balls
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 16, 2007 |
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C60 molecules have an intriguing ball-shaped structure that suggests several interesting possibilities for motion on surfaces. Indeed, researchers have found that the passage of electrons through a bucky ball in a transistor ...
Researchers find a new way to read nanoscale vibrations
Mar 27, 2007 |
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Nanomechanical oscillators -- tiny strips of vibrating silicon only a few hundred atoms thick -- are the subject of extensive study by nanotechnology researchers. They could someday replace bulky quartz crystals ...
Super cool atom thermometer
Dec 07, 2009 |
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As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...
Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to overcome the entropy (a measure of the disorder in ...
Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...
IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team ...
Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...
Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...
Solving a subatomic shell game: Physicists decode hidden properties of the rare Earths
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.
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