Sentences with phrase «vacuum chamber about»

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.

Its heart is a vacuum chamber about the size of a stick of butter.

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Inside lies a smaller vacuum chamber — about the size of an MRI machine — that contains the rocket's magnets.

The aim of firing this massive bank of laser beams would be to either heat a chamber sufficiently high — about 1029 degrees Kelvin — to create a false vacuum inside or compress a pair of spherical plates to within the Planck distance of each other, creating negative energy via the Casimir effect.

This chamber is filled with dry air — at a pressure of about 1 atm — to prevent the electronics package from overheating, while the high - vacuum probe end of the RGA is specifically designed to protrude out of the chamber so it can perform gas sampling.

NIST's cold - atom clock relies on about 1 million rubidium atoms held in a small glass vacuum chamber.

About 1 million cold rubidium atoms are held in a vacuum chamber in the lower left of the photo.

The telescope's combined science instruments and optical element recently completed about 100 days of cryogenic testing inside Johnson's Chamber A, a massive thermal vacuum testing chamber at the center.