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Dr. William D. Phillips, the first researcher from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to become a Nobel Laureate, has been awarded the...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Today, the University of Maryland (UM), the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National...
GAITHERSBURG, MD –Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a beam of electrons to move a single...
After 10 years of research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled the world's first precision instrument for directly measuring...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the use of water droplets as minuscule "boxes" for small numbers of...
BOULDER, COLO.—An experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than the national standard clock based on a...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and built a novel electromagnetic trap for ions that could be easily mass...
Gaithersburg, Md.—Raw code for "unbreakable" encryption, based on the principles of quantum physics, has been generated at record speed over optical fiber at...
Two theoreticians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Indiana University (IU) have published the most accurate values yet for...
BOULDER, Colo. – Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have coaxed six atoms into spinning together in...
NIST Fellow Jun Ye was honored Oct. 8 at the "Amazing Light: Visions for Discovery" symposium held to celebrate the 90th birthday of 1964 Nobel Laureate Charles...
Congratulatory letter from Congressman Boehlert (requires Acrobat Reader) Boulder, Colo.—John L. (Jan) Hall of the Commerce Department's National Institute of...
GAITHERSBURG, MD—A novel material that may demonstrate a highly unusual "liquid" magnetic state at extremely low temperatures has been discovered by a team of...
Patterns of noise—normally considered flaws—in images of an ultracold cloud of potassium provide the first-ever visual evidence of correlated ultracold atoms, a...
Boulder, Colo.— A full-scale quantum computer could produce reliable results even if its components performed no better than today's best first-generation...
Atoms at the ends of self-assembled atomic chains act like anchors with lower energy levels than the "links" in the chain, according to new measurements by...
The first sighting of atoms flying in formation has been reported by physicists at the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated "teleportation" by transferring key properties...
The fastest known cryptographic system based on transmission of single photons—the smallest pulses of light—has been demonstrated by a team at the Commerce...
A super-cold collection of molecules behaving in perfect unison has been created for the first time from a sea of "fermion" atoms by researchers at JILA, a...
A team of researchers at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of...
The trouble with qubits is they don't always behave. Scientists are, however, learning to control these weird "quantum bits," particles that someday may store...
Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar...
In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they...
Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of...