Researchers from Vienna University of Technology, under the direction of Professor Thorsten Schumm and a team from the National Metrology Institute Braunschweig (PTB), have successfully manipulated atomic nuclei with lasers for the first time.
Scientists have developed "quantum ping-pong": Using a special lens, two atoms can be made to bounce a single photon back and forth with high precision. Atoms can absorb and reemit light this is an everyday phenomenon. In most cases, however, an atom emits a light particle in all possible direc
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