A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a…
Browsing: Ultracold Atoms
Ultracold atoms are atoms that have been cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, typically below a few microkelvin. At these extremely low temperatures, classical physics gives way to quantum mechanics, and the atoms exhibit novel quantum behaviors such as superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation. To achieve such temperatures, techniques like laser cooling and evaporative cooling are employed, where the former involves using laser light to slow down the atoms, and the latter further cools the gas by allowing the hottest atoms to escape. These ultracold environments are valuable in experimental physics as they provide a controlled setting for studying quantum phenomena, simulating quantum many-body systems, and developing applications such as precision sensors and quantum computers.
Produced inside NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, the ultracold bubbles provide new opportunities to experiment with…
The International Space Station (ISS) is officially home to the coolest experiment in space. NASA’s…
Physicists reveal an intriguing manifestation of topology, which appears in the depletion rate of topological…
NASA scientists plan to create the coolest spot in the universe at the International Space…
Physicists from MIT have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first…
Researchers will use NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory to study ultra-cold quantum gases, exploring how atoms…
Using a vacuum system that isolates ultracold atoms from room temperature and pressure, scientists reveal…
Using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber, scientists have successfully simulated the evolution of…
By immersing charged barium chloride molecules in an ultracold cloud of calcium atoms, UCLA physicists…
A newly published study details how MIT scientists create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an…
Using a technique based on electromagnetically induced transparency, MIT and Harvard scientists have achieved the…
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have succeeded for the first time in experimentally realizing…
A research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a…
By following the dynamics of a quantum system of strongly correlated ultracold atoms in an…
A new publication demonstrates that the dynamics of a system of ultracold potassium atoms, trapped…