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  • noun metrology An SI unit of thermodynamic temperature equal to 10−6 kelvins.

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micro- +‎ kelvin

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Examples

  • It will use sensitive radio receivers capable of distinguishing temperature variations of about one microkelvin.

    MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research 2008

  • "A 256-qubit Bose-Einstein quantum computer, self-contained in a solid hydrogen shell, containing a laser-suspended lithium ion condensate matrix chilled to 3 degrees microkelvin," said Bobby, pointing at the sphere.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • When the temperature is one-millionth of a degree from this point (termed 1 µK, microkelvin) free hydrogen atoms, for example, move at speeds of less than 1 km/hr (= 25 cm/s).

    Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics 1997

  • Then a number of groups managed to cool small samples of dilute gases to temperatures well below one microkelvin.

    Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 1996

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  • | e > Tune laser to lower frequency (red)  < o Stationary atoms do not absorb o  Atoms moving toward laser see blue shift | g > Absorb photons, slow down Use single laser beam to slow and stop beams of atoms Use pairs of beams to cool sample Reach microkelvin temperatures

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