By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state with several simultaneously ...

These so-called optical lattices act as versatile potential landscapes to trap ultracold quantum gases of bosons and fermions. They form powerful model systems of quantum many-body systems in ...

In this interview, Luis Orozco of the University of Maryland, College Park offers some metaphors to help us begin to comprehend BECs and get a grasp of research in the strange world of ultracold ...

The core of my research profile lies on the study of correlations in few-body atomic systems, i.e., systems with three or more atoms, at ultracold temperatures. Such systems are of fundamental ...

Onboard the MAIUS-1 rocket, a carefully choreographed system of lasers split the ultracold atoms into multiple matter waves before letting them collide. Images captured inside the rocket ...

The team is affiliated with the MIT Physics Department, the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, and MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE). A light kick When Ketterle came to MIT as a ...

In one of the most surprising recent developments, the Virginia-Orsay team has observed that such an ultracold plasma can form spontaneously from a gas of ultracold Rydberg atoms. In the experiments, ...

Exotic, ultracold states of matter are challenging physicists to draw on expertise from atomic, condensed-matter and plasma physics, and causing a few surprises along the way The ultracold world has ...

(That's a few degrees colder than space!) The test was designed to study how ultracold gas behaves in microgravity, and the results may lead to experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs ...

They might use these ultracold atoms to sense even the weakest magnetic fields in the room, or to build a clock accurate to within a quadrillionth of a second. But they probably could not take ...

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