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- adjective physics Of a
temperature close toabsolute zero , especially one at whichquantum-mechanical properties are observed. - adjective Extremely
cold .
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Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold “boson” atoms — the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates — into a “supersolid,” an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid.
Odin's Day michele_blue 2009
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A new method has been developed to directly and precisely measure a quantum property of individual atoms -- the phase shifts that result when they collide at ultracold temperatures -- in a way that is independent of the accuracy-limiting density of the atoms.
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It is pretty easy to do a poll perhaps not well..., it is pretty hard to to ultracold STM of atomic junctions.
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was the pipe that delivered the ultracold liquid helium to the magnets.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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It was the pipe that delivered the ultracold liquid helium to the magnets.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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At that time the quantum physics of ultracold atoms had become an important focus of our research.
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Optimizing Science Education and the Myth of a Necessary 'Super Teacher' by Carl Wieman an educator who also happens to have won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001 for creating a new ultracold state of matter, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate
Archive 2008-12-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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It was the pipe that delivered the ultracold liquid helium to the magnets.
Final Theory Mark Alpert 2008
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The record-breaking lows were among the latest feats of ultracold physics, the laboratory study of matter at temperatures so mind-bogglingly frigid that atoms and even light itself behave in highly unusual ways.
Wow, that's cold! Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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Physicists at JILA have performed the first-ever precision measurements using ultracold molecules, in work that may help solve a long-standing scientific mystery -- whether so-called constants of nature have changed since the dawn of the universe.
April 28th, 2006 2006
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