Tag Archive for 'Quantum gas'

The polymers applied to the reflective surface trap the photon gas in a parabola of light. The narrower this parabola is, the more one-dimensionally the gas behaves. Image credit: University of Bonn.

Physicists Create One-Dimensional Photon Gas

Sep 9, 2024 by News Staff

In their experiments, physicists at the University of Bonn and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau observed the dimensional crossover from one to two...

The different rotational directions of the various ‘dumbbells’ indicate that the atoms lie in different planes. Image credit: Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn.

Physicists Demonstrate New Method for Determining 3D Location of Single Atoms

Mar 5, 2024 by News Staff

The new method, developed by a team of physicists from the University of Bonn and the University of Bristol, makes it possible to precisely determine the...

Zhang et al. demonstrate the long-sought transition between atomic and molecular condensates, the bosonic analogue of the crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer superfluid in a Fermi gas. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03443-0.

Physicists Turn Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate into Molecular One

Apr 29, 2021 by News Staff

Molecular quantum gases (that is, ultracold and dense molecular gases) have many potential applications, including quantum control of chemical reactions,...

Several tens of thousands of particles spontaneously organize in a self-determined crystalline structure while sharing the same macroscopic wavefunction -- hallmarks of supersolidity. Image credit: University of Innsbruck.

Physicists Turn Quantum Gas into Supersolid

Apr 24, 2019 by News Staff

Predicted five decades ago, supersolidity is an exotic phase of matter where superfluidity and crystalline order coexist. By combining theory and experiments,...

An artist’s impression of record-cold quantum gas of potassium-rubidium molecules. Image credit: Steven Burrows / JILA.

Physicists Create Coldest Quantum Gas of Molecules

Feb 27, 2019 by News Staff

Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, have produced...