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NIST System Sets Speed Record For Generation of Quantum Keys for ‘Unbreakable’ Encryption
Release Date: 05/03/2004 The fastest known cryptographic system based on transmission of single photons—the smallest pulses of light—has been … more
NIST/University of Colorado Scientists Create New Form of Matter: A Fermionic Condensate
Release Date: 01/28/2004 Left to right Deborah Jin, Markus Greiner, Cindy Regal ©Geoffrey Wheeler To obtain a high-resolution copy of this image Gail Porter . 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
Ultracold Molecules Pave Way for Quantum “Super Molecule” Achievement Could Improve Understanding of Superconductivity
Release Date: 07/02/2003 Physicist Deborah Jin in her laboratory at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of … more
Taming the Qubit
Release Date: 04/10/2003 The trouble with qubits is they don't always behave. Scientists are, however, learning to control these weird "quantum bits," … more
Satellite Measures Sun's True Power
Release Date: 01/27/2003 Scientists expect to gain important information about the sun's effect on the Earth's atmosphere and climate from sophisticated … more
Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
Release Date: 10/09/2001 Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics (news release) Quotes About the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Winners Press Conference … more
From Supernova to Smoke Ring: Recent Experiments Underscore Weirdness of the Bose-Einstein Condensate
Release Date: 03/12/2001 Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside … more
NIST Scientists Cross the Bridge between Atomic and Real Worlds
Release Date: 01/19/2000 In 1996, researchers at the Boulder, Colo., laboratories of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology … 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
Neutron Trapping Demonstrated for First Time at NIST
Release Date: 01/05/2000 Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that they can confine neutrons, one of the basic particles of matter, in a three-dimensional … more
NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Clock
Release Date: 12/29/1999 There's nothing like the joy of receiving a precision timepiece as a holiday gift. Thanks to the Commerce Department's National Institute of … more
New Web Site Puts Atomic Time on Your Computer
Release Date: 10/14/1999 The official U.S. time in any U.S. time zone now can be obtained from the new Internet web site, www.time.gov , maintained by the Boulder … more |
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