Physicists use multicolored laser light to study atoms critical to medicine
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 06:01
in Physics & Chemistry
UCLA physicists have shown that shining multicolored laser light on rubidium atoms causes them to lose energy and cool to nearly absolute zero. This result suggests that atoms fundamental to chemistry, such as hydrogen and carbon, could also be cooled using similar lasers, an outcome that would allow researchers to study the details of chemical reactions involved in medicine.