Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 07:50
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutral atoms--having no net electric charge--usually don't act very dramatically around a magnetic field. But by “dressing them up” with light, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaborative venture of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a startling transformation.