Tag Archive for 'Ytterbium'

Physicists Create Five New Isotopes of Thulium, Ytterbium and Lutetium

Feb 19, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists using the Advanced Rare Isotope Separator (ARIS) at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have produced, separated, and identified five...

In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurore Simonnet.

Physicists Observe ‘Billions of Billions’ of Entangled Electrons

Jan 17, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of physicists says they have observed quantum entanglement among ‘billions of billions’ of flowing electrons in thin films of...

Following a blueprint created by N.Y. Yao et al, University of Maryland physicists made the first time crystal using a one-dimensional chain of ytterbium ions; each ion behaves like an electron spin and exhibits long-range interactions indicated by the arrows. Image credit: J. Zhang et al.

Physicists Unveil ‘Time Crystals’

Jan 27, 2017 by News Staff

Thanks to a breakthrough by a research team led by University of California Berkeley physicist Norman Yao, time crystals are now a reality. Following a...