Physicists Amita Deb and Niels Kjaergaard are not feeling ultracool, despite their research project being named one of the world’s top 10 physics breakthroughs of this year… [Read More]
Lyset er overalt.
Det flyver rundt i bølger konstant, og støder lysets fotoner på en blok af atomer – din hånd eller et glas med mælk – spreder det sig, og der sker en såkaldt lysspredning… [Read More] [Translated]
A cloud of ultracold atoms is like a motel with a neon “no vacancy” sign.
If a guest at the motel wants to switch rooms, they’re out of luck. No vacant rooms means there’s no choice but to stay put… [Read More]
A manifestation of the Pauli exclusion principle in ultracold atomic gases has been spotted for the first time by three independent research groups. Called Pauli blocking, the effect was first predicted 30 years ago and occurs when fermionic atoms in a quantum gas are unable to make transitions to nearby quantum states… [Read More]
Pauli blocking, a quantum phenomenon that makes a dense quantum gas suddenly turn transparent, has now been observed in three independent experiments…[Read More]
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‘Feeling Great’ to get US Patent
Dunedin physicists Dr Amita Deb and Prof Niels Kjaergaard have gained a United States patent for their new quantum radio technology… [Read More]
A flash of brilliance has secured a pair of Otago physicists a $60,000 grant to develop an invention which will allow photographs and videos to be taken through solid objects… [Read More]
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ABC News atom collision
NZ physicists collide ultracold atoms to observe a key quantum principle… [Read More]
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Littlest Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is one of the world’s most expensive and most complex experimental facilities to date. It is a particle accelerator which lies in a 27 kilometre circular tunnel built under the ground on the Franco-Swiss border… [Read More]
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Hot finding with ultra cold atoms
Two University of Otago physics students have pushed the frontiers of quantum technology by helping develop laser-operated ”optical tweezers” that precisely split clouds of ultracold atoms and smash them together… [Read More]
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Partial-wave interference
In quantum scattering. Two research groups, one in New Zealand, the other in the Netherlands, have banged quantum gases together at velocities of up to 20 cm/s… [read more]