News articles tagged with 'rubidium'
Putting a spin on light and atoms
— 17 Sep 2010 09:53 | PhysicsMagnetometers come in many shapes and sizes - an ordinary hand-held compass is the simplest - but alkali-vapour magnetometers are extrasensitive devices that measure magnetic fields…
'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications
— 5 Sep 2010 17:38 | TechnologyA tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in…
Observing quantum particles in perfect order
— 19 Aug 2010 09:52 | PhysicsScientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeed in recording single-atom resolved images of a highly correlated quantum gas…
Trapping giant Rydberg atoms for faster quantum computers
— 7 May 2010 09:58 | PhysicsIn an achievement that could help enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly-ionised…
JILA scientists control chemical reactions of ultracold molecules
— 13 Feb 2010 21:24 | ChemistryPhysicists 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…
Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms
— 5 Nov 2009 12:08 | TechnologyPhysicists 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,…
NIST physicists turn to radio dial for finer atomic matchmaking
— 23 Oct 2009 13:09 | TechnologyInvestigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University…
Cross-dressing rubidium may reveal clues for exotic computing
— 25 Feb 2009 13:50 | TechnologyNeutral atoms - having no net electric charge - usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by 'dressing them up' with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute…
Researchers produce quantum-entangled images
— 12 Jun 2008 23:31 | PhysicsUsing a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and…
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