Holding pattern Small clusters of caesium atoms (pink blobs) were held in a vertical optical lattice. A laser then splits each atom into a quantum state in which half of the atom was closer to a ...

Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have wave properties in addition to particle characteristics. This wave-particle duality was postulated already in 1924 ...

(Nanowerk News) JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson’s team of researchers have for the first time successfully combined two of the “spookiest” features of quantum mechanics to make a better quantum ...

For most of us, the mention of “technological innovation” brings to mind images of the technologies that have become useful for our everyday lives. We imagine aspiring app developers lounging about ...

On September 14, 2015, Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, began the first day of his vacation in Maine by doing what he does every morning after breakfast, wherever he is: he checked the experiment logs for ...

Quantum physics tells us about the properties and behaviors of atomic and subatomic particles. But scientists have long held the belief that the rules that govern the microscopic world should also be ...

An illustration of the Berkeley group’s lattice interferometer, where the standing wave of a laser beam in a cavity suspends each atom in a spatially separated quantum superposition state, in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A very sensitive symmetrical micro-wave interferometer utilizing four electromagnetic horns is described. Operating at 24005 Mc/s ($\lambda ...

First in-flight results from LISA Pathfinder mission suggest that full gravity-wave observatory would be sufficiently free of noise to pick up distant cosmic collisions. The European Space Agency (ESA ...