Pinning atoms into order
Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 07:14
in Physics & Chemistry
In an international first, physicists of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantum phenomenon, where an arbitrarily weak perturbation causes atoms to build an organised structure from an initially unorganised one. The scientific team headed by Hanns-Christoph Naegerl has published a paper about quantum phase transitions in a one dimensional quantum lattice in the scientific journal Nature...