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JQI Researchers Create 'Synthetic Magnetic Fields' for Neutral Atoms
Release Date: 12/15/2009 Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National … more
Time Magazine Names JQI Work Among Year’s Best Inventions
Release Date: 11/17/2009 Time Magazine has named research on the "quantum teleportation" of information from one atom to another in its "50 Best Inventions … more
Capturing Those In-Between Moments: NIST Solves Timing Problem in Molecular Modeling
Release Date: 11/03/2009 A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces … more
NIST Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking
Release Date: 10/20/2009 Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of … more
High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors
Release Date: 09/08/2009 Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute … more
JILA/NIST Scientists Get a Grip on Colliding Fermions to Enhance Atomic Clock Accuracy
Release Date: 04/16/2009 BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms—a class … more
X Marks the Spot: Ions Coldly Go Through NIST Trap Junction
Release Date: 04/07/2009 The NIST X-trap is constructed from a sandwich of two diamond-shaped alumina wafers, visible in the right center of the top photo. The bottom … more
Flatland Physics Probes Mysteries of Superfluidity
Release Date: 03/24/2009 If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their … more
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Release Date: 01/13/2009 Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have … more
JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold ‘Polar’ Molecules
Release Date: 10/01/2008 Scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder … more
NIST Physicists are Finalists for Service to America Medals
Release Date: 09/16/2008 Two physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been named finalists for the 2008 Service to America Medals, … more
NIST Physicist David J. Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science
Release Date: 08/25/2008 BOULDER, Colo.—Physicist David J. Wineland of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been … more
New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Release Date: 08/06/2008 Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have … more
High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory
Release Date: 04/29/2008 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Germany believe they can achieve … more
NIST 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock
Release Date: 03/18/2008 An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the … more |
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