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How Do You Catch An Atom And Pin It Down?

Fri, 10/01/2024 - 2:42pm
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Mikkel Andersen, a physicist at New Zealand's University of Otago, isolated a single atom of rubidium and then used a special astronomical camera to snap its picture. Andersen describes the process of turning lasers into optical tweezers and what catching atoms means for quantum computing.

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