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Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A microscopic view on quantum fluctuations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics achieve direct imaging of quantum fluctuations at absolute zero temperature.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

The 'quantum magnet': Physicists expand prospects for engineering unusual materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard physicists have expanded the possibilities for quantum engineering of novel materials such as high-temperature superconductors by coaxing ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

One-dimensional window on superconductivity, magnetism: Atoms are proxies for electrons in ultracold optical emulator

A Rice University-led team of physicists is reporting the first success in a three-year effort to build a precision simulator for superconductors using a grid of intersecting laser beams and ultracold atomic ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Physicists find new parallel between cold gases and 'hot' superconductors

Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Seeing the quantum in chemistry: Scientists control chemical reactions of ultracold molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Super cool atom thermometer

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

(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, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 4

Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking

(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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Pushing the cold frontier in an orderly fashion

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Buffer gas cooling could open up the field of ultracold physics

(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, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2 feature

Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1994, when Peter Shor famously showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than any current classical algorithm, physicists have been investigating ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1 feature

Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3