Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

Now, in a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, Rey and JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson, along with ...

Physicists at UC Berkeley immobilized small clusters of cesium atoms (pink blobs) in a vertical vacuum chamber, then split each atom into a quantum state in which half of the atom was closer to a ...

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally demonstrated counterflow superfluidity (CSF) for ...

pattern shown here. Since I realize that it is difficult to pin point the actual unit cell from the lattice, let's cut some of the atoms from the end of the lattice in order to facilitate this. This ...

New theory offers insights into the origin of the very low and negative thermal expansion observed in cordierite ...

Free surfaces have a structure that may differ from the bulk solid and also a different lattice spacing. · "Real" surfaces contain defects such as the ledges, kinks, vacancies and adsorbed atoms as ...

An optical lattice clock is a type of atomic clock that ... along with the laser and control system used for trapping and spectroscopy of atoms, was miniaturized. This innovation reduced the ...

Accurate frequency measurements of a narrow optical clock transition in 171 Yb atoms trapped in an optical lattice establish this system as a serious contender in the quest to develop increasingly ...

The chemical composition of a material alone sometimes reveals little about its properties. The decisive factor is often the arrangement of the molecules in the atomic lattice structure or on the ...