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Though we cannot see it, we live in a quantized world where the light that illuminates our days is made up of tiny packets of energy, and the atoms that constitute matter are similarly divided into discrete energy bands.
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.
The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks.