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Key Property of Graphene Sustained Over Wide Ranges of Density and Energy
Release Date: 11/14/2012 A collaboration led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology has shown for the first time that charge … more
First Observation of the Hall Effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Release Date: 06/19/2012 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have observed for the first time the Hall effect in a gas of ultracold atoms. … more
Atoms Dressed with Light Show New Interactions, Could Reveal Way to Observe Enigmatic Particle
Release Date: 12/08/2011 Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to manipulate atoms’ internal states with … more
The First Non-Trivial Atom Circuit: Progress towards an Atom SQUID
Release Date: 03/30/2011 Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have created the first nontrivial … more
Charge It: Neutral Atoms Made to Act Like Electrically Charged Particles
Release Date: 03/30/2011 Completing the story they started by creating synthetic magnetic fields,* scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of … more
First Demonstration of 'Spin-Orbit Coupling' in Ultracold Atomic Gases
Release Date: 03/15/2011 Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time caused a gas of atoms to exhibit an important quantum phenomenon known as … more
JQI Physicists Demonstrate Coveted 'Spin-Orbit Coupling' for the First Time in Ultracold Atomic Gases
Release Date: 03/02/2011 Technique Suggests an Avenue for Creating New Kinds of Superconductivity GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute … more
Seeing the Quantum in Chemistry: JILA Scientists Control Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Molecules
Release Date: 02/11/2010 Physicists at JILA have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow … more
Everlasting Quantum Wave: NIST Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases
Release Date: 12/15/2009 Solitary waves that run a long distance without losing their shape or dying out are a special class of waves called solitons. These everlasting … more
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
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
Novel Material May Demonstrate Long-Sought 'Liquid' Magnetic State
Release Date: 09/08/2005 A crystal diagram shows the triangle-shaped atomic structure of nickel gallium sulfide, which may have an unusual magnetic "liquid" … more
NIST/University of Colorado Researchers Create Bose-Einstein "Super Molecule"
Release Date: 11/20/2003 A super-cold collection of molecules behaving in perfect unison has been created for the first time from a sea of “fermion” … more
Wieman and Cornell Receive Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
Release Date: 01/13/2000 Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded the … more |
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