Sentences with phrase «cooled ytterbium»
Physicists at Imperial College, meanwhile, hope to study a fountain of laser - cooled ytterbium fluoride molecules, which could yield a 1000-fold gain in the next 5 years.
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This was achieved by means of ytterbium ions which were trapped in so - called «radio - frequency ion traps» in ultra-high vacuum and were cooled down to a few millikelvin with the aid of laser light.
To create a more precise atomic clock, Ludlow's team first used green and blue lasers to cool bundles of ytterbium atoms to 10 millikelvin, or within 10 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero.
The cooling slowed the natural motion of the atoms to a near stop, which allowed the researchers to observe the electron spins» dance around the Ytterbium (Yb) atoms in the YbMgGaO4 crystal.
Physicists from the University of Tennessee succeeded in replicating the original ytterbium crystal, and Mourigal examined it at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where it was cooled down to a temperature of -273.09 degrees Celsius (0.06 degrees Kelvin).