Sentences with phrase «microkelvin by»

In breaking this record, Eric Cornell and his colleagues in Boulder cooled rubidium atoms to 5 microkelvin by optical molasses, and then turned off the lasers while keeping the atoms trapped in a magnetic field.

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The strontium atoms in each standard are isolated from the environment and from one another: cooled to a temperature below 10 microkelvins, they are situated inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber and immobilized in a specially constructed optical trap generated by the beam of a supplementary laser.
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