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| Title: |
Quantum Physics; Condensates; Bose Einstein; Jin |
| Description: |
NIST physicist Deborah Jin aligns an infrared laser for a magneto optical trap as part of a project to create "superatoms." The trap is used to collect 1 billion rubidium atoms under ultrahigh vacuum. The atoms are then sent to a second trap under even higher vacuum and cooled to only 100 nanoKelvin (billionths of a degree) above absolute zero. the result is a so called "Bose Einstein condensate" or superatom in which a large number of atoms behave in unison.
*PL, ultracold, Bose-Einstein condensate, Nobel Prize, super atom
See also http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/gallery/supratom.htm.
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| Subjects (names): |
Jin, Deborah
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| Topics/Categories: |
Quantum Physics--Condensates
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| Type: |
Photo/Color |
| Source: |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Credit Line as it should
appear in print: |
Copyright Geoffrey Wheeler |
| Date Created: |
1996 |
| Date Entered: |
11/2/2004 |
