Sentences with phrase «trap individual atoms»

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The researchers report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits.

«The atom trap is so sensitive that it can capture and count individual atoms,» said Buizert, who is in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

To trap individual neutral atoms, the researchers first used a laser to cool a cloud of rubidium atoms to ultracold, near - absolute - zero temperatures, slowing the atoms down from their usual, high - speed trajectories.

«We have demonstrated a reconfigurable array of traps for single atoms, where we can prepare up to 50 individual atoms in separate traps deterministically, for future use in quantum information processing, quantum simulations, or precision measurements,» says Vuletic, who is also a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.

In their new paper, the team reports going a step further, to control the interactions of these 51 trapped atoms, a necessary step toward manipulating individual qubits.

The work builds on research, published in Science last year, in which the Wang and Datye groups found a novel way to trap and stabilize individual platinum atoms on the surface of cerium oxide, a commonly used component in emissions control catalysts.

«Studying argon gas trapped in two - dimensional array of tiny «cages»: Understanding how individual atoms enter and exit the nanoporous frameworks could help scientists design new materials for gas separation and nuclear waste remediation.»

We report the room - temperature trapping of individual Ar atoms within hexagonal prism (alumino) silicate nano - cages forming a two - dimensional framework on a flat Ru (0001) surface.

Here, we show that the aforementioned 2D - zeolite models can trap individual Ar atoms in the nano - cages that make the surface, providing a new playground for the fundamental study of isolated noble gas atoms in confinement with surface science methods.