A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

Why is it that there are certain energies that an electron inside a material simply can not have? Like much of quantum physics, it's all because electrons are waves.

Collapsing energy bands to explore their geometric structure Date: June 1, 2016 Source: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Summary: Researchers have devised a straightforward method to probe ...

For the first time, a research team led by Markus Koch from the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has tracked in real time how individual atoms combine to ...

Cold atoms “The temperature scale as we know it starts at zero and goes up to infinity, but it doesn’t stop there,” says Ulrich Schneider of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in ...

The exquisite control we can exert over ultracold atoms lets physicists simulate materials with unusual properties either by shaking the atoms, or putting them together one at a time.

Cold atoms are atoms that have been cooled to very low temperatures, below 1 mK, reducing their motion to a very low energy regime where quantum effects emerge.

It might sound completely different, but it appears the two systems—the early expanding universe and the super-cold atoms—are governed by some very similar math.

Cold atoms are atoms that have been cooled to very low temperatures, below 1 mK, reducing their motion to a very low energy regime where quantum effects emerge. This makes them sensitive to some of ...

Ultra-cold atoms deliver cool research by Marisa Spyker, The College of William & Mary Ph.D. student Charles Fancher has been researching how to trap and manipulate ultra-cold atoms.

Cold atoms are atoms that have been cooled to very low temperatures, below 1 mK, reducing their motion to a very low energy ...

The cold-atom clouds contain neutral atoms, which – unlike ions – interact only very weakly with their surroundings. So even when an atom cloud has been cooled to 500 nK, the rest of the system – ...