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  • With a minute magnet attached at one end, the cantilever will make ultra-sensitive measurements of a cloud of several thousand laser-cooled rubidium atoms hovering mere microns above it.

    New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical Mark Anderson 2007

  • Cornell and Wieman, and 4 months after them he reported large condensates of laser-cooled sodium atoms.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 - Presentation Speech 2001

  • For the laser-cooled neutral atoms moving in optical molasses to become really useful one needed a trap.

    Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 1997

  • Among other things, Chu has constructed an atomic fountain, in which laser-cooled atoms are sprayed up from a trap like jets of water.

    Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics 1997

  • As you can tell from the starting temperature, they were working with laser-cooled atoms for this demonstration.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • David Weiss 'group at Pennsylvania State University is already using this approach in a new atom-based experiment where laser-cooled caesium atoms are trapped for up to a few minutes at a time, which leads to a projected sensitivity 200 times better than the Berkeley thallium experiment.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2009

  • The scientists trapped a pair of laser-cooled calcium ions in an electromagnetic trap and carried out a series of measurements.

    innovations-report 2009

  • The strong electric forces between the ions enabled the laser-cooled magnesium to cool down the beryllium ions, and thereby remove heat associated with their motion, without disturbing the stored quantum information.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • "Electrons in a spherical ultracold, quasi-neutral plasma at temperature in the Kelvin range can be created by laser excitation of an ultracold, laser-cooled atomic cloud.

    Universe Today 2009

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