In experiments with
ultracold rubidium atoms MPQ scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made of gigantic Rydberg atoms.
Here we prepare an ultracold few - body quantum state of reactants and demonstrate state - to - state chemistry for the recombination of three spin - polarized
ultracold rubidium (Rb) atoms to form a weakly bound Rb2 molecule.
A very sensitive force - measuring technique uses
ultracold rubidium atoms in an optical cavity as a mechanical oscillator.
Not exact matches
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.
In their earlier work, the Colorado group observed a significant drawback of their
ultracold potassium
rubidium molecules: They were chemically reactive, and essentially came apart when they collided with other molecules.
A three - atom collision leading to diatomic
rubidium is elucidated quantum mechanically at
ultracold temperature.
«We catch hundreds of
Rubidium atoms in a magnetic trap and cool them so that they form an
ultracold Bose - Einstein condensate,» says Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics at the Vienna University of Technology.
She and fellow U.C.B. physicist Jun Ye recently succeeded in making a gas of
ultracold polar molecules of potassium and
rubidium near the temperature of the quantum regime where Jin previously observed a fermionic condensate.
Usually, only the wave properties of single particles play a role, but now researchers at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology have succeeded in quantum mechanically controlling hundreds of
Rubidium atoms of an
ultracold Bose - Einstein - condensate by shaking it in just the right way.