Sentences with phrase «of ytterbium»

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.

To that end the researchers utilized a pair of ytterbium ions as quantum bits, or qubits, each confined to a private vacuum chamber about a meter apart in an experimental system at the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

While this may not seem much at first glance, the nationwide fluxes expressed in kilograms per year are quite substantial — 3000 kg of silver, 43 kg of gold, 1070 kg of gadolinium, 1500 kg of neodymium and 150 kg of ytterbium.

In a paper published in Nature in 2016, Monroe and colleagues debuted a five - qubit quantum computer, made of ytterbium ions, allowing scientists to carry out various quantum computations.

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.

Not exact matches

So he isolated a single ytterbium atom in a vacuum chamber, shined a laser at it, and focused in on the resulting 450 - nanometer gap of darkness that landed on his digital image sensor.

In the experimental work from Monroe's group, physicists examined how quickly quantum connections formed in a crystal of eleven ytterbium ions confined in an electromagnetic trap.

But who has even heard of erbium or ytterbium?

Efforts to improve the intensity of these emissions have focused on ytterbium (Yb) rare - earth dopants, as they are easily excitable with standard lasers.

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.

One of the computers is built around five ytterbium ions held in an electromagnetic trap and manipulated by lasers.

A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, says that ytterbium could find a role in super-accurate atomic clocks.

Three of those elements — ytterbium, erbium, and terbium — were simply given additional variants on the name of Ytterby, while the other three were named holmium (for Stockholm), scandium, and thulium (both from the Latin for Scandinavia), in the nationalistic fashion then in favor.

The LAP team has developed a novel ytterbium: yttrium - aluminium - garnet thin - disk laser that emits light pulses lasting 7.7 femtoseconds and consisting of 2.2 optical oscillations.

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).

EVE is losing Lead Game Designer CCP Scarpia, Senior Game Designer CCP Ytterbium, and Technical Designer CCP FoxFour — the first two at the end of March; the last in June.