Sentences with phrase «trapping small atoms»

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The condensate, which is made from around 4000 cooled rubidium atoms, is trapped inside the beams by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.

In the new, supercontrolled chemical reaction, researchers trapped a single sodium atom in one optical tweezer — a device that snares small particles in a laser beam — and a cesium atom in another tweezer.

The ATRAP group, Gabrielse says, made the choice to increase the number of atoms in the trap rather than increasing the sensitivity of the instruments to detect small numbers of anti-atoms, as ALPHA has done.

April 13, 2018 - Ensembles of atoms, trapped as vapors in small cells, are exquisitely sensitive to external fields or perturbations, and many sensor devices already use light, and specifically precision spectroscopy, to probe the quantum states of such ensembles...