News tagged with neutral atom
FASTSAT instruments shipped for tests and launch preparation
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Three of the satellite instruments that will fly on an upcoming satellite mission called "FASTSAT" have been created at one NASA center and have arrived at another for more tests to ensure they are flight ...
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 ...
Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...
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Physicists Turn Rubidium Atom Into a Single-Photon Server
Mar 12, 2007 |
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Every time you switch on a light bulb, 10 to the power of 15 visible photons, the elementary particles of light, are illuminating the room in every second. If that is too many for you, light a candle. If that ...
Cassini Data Help Redraw Shape of Solar System (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Images from the Ion and Neutral Camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest that the heliosphere, the region of the sun's influence, may not have the comet-like shape predicted by existing ...
NIST atom interferometry displays new quantum tricks
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 25, 2007 |
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while ...
New system for detection of single atoms: Records photon bursts from optical cavity
May 17, 2009 |
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Scientists have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less ...
'Impressionist' Spacecraft to View Solar System's Invisible Frontier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 25, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the edge of our solar system in December 2004, the Voyager 1 spacecraft encountered something never before experienced during its then 26-year cruise through the solar system — an invisible ...
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
Novel diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts ...
How the Moon produces its own water
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing ...
Trapped, Imaged Single Atoms May Enable Powerful Quantum Computing
Jul 20, 2007 |
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Quantum computers have the potential to vastly out-perform present-day “classical” computers – if scientists can identify and manipulate promising quantum bits, or “qubits,” the basic information-storing units ...
IBEX collecting science data, building first all-sky map of the edge of the solar system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 14, 2009 |
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Following two months of commissioning, during which the spacecraft and sensors were tuned for optimum mission performance, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft began gathering data to build the first maps ...
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