News articles tagged with 'ultracold'
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…
From three to four: a quantum leap in few-body physics
— 7 Apr 2009 13:33 | PhysicsIn 2007 and 2008 two groups of theoretical physicists (Hammer and Platter, and von Stecher, D'Incao, and Greene) predicted the existence of universal four-body states that are closely…
Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity
— 25 Mar 2009 15:16 | PhysicsIf physicists lived in Flatland - the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel - some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently…
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…
Simply weird stuff: Making supersolids with ultracold gas atoms
— 14 Jan 2009 09:30 | TechnologyPhysicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold…
Physicists at Mainz University generate ultracold neutrons at the TRIGA Reactor
— 29 Dec 2008 13:54 | PhysicsFor the first time ever, scientists at the TRIGA research reactor of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have determined the velocity distribution of ultracold neutrons (UCN) emitted…
Quantum simulator to understand the properties of complex electronic materials
— 7 Dec 2008 07:14 | TechnologyThe design of new materials with specific properties is an important but demanding challenge in physics and chemistry. Already in 1982 Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman therefore…
Quantum simulator for complex electronic materials
— 5 Dec 2008 01:48 | TechnologyThe design of new materials with specific properties is a difficult and important challenge in physics and chemistry. Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman in 1982 therefore suggested…