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laser cooling

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noun

  1. a technique using laser light to cool atoms to a very low temperature by removing momentum from the particles.


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After the laser cooling stage, magnetic fields trap the atoms and keep them contained.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

The Cern team has now brought that down to more than -100C, using a technique called laser cooling.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2024

One immediate step is to use laser cooling to make the antihydrogen atoms even colder, correspondingly boosting ALPHA’s sensitivity to gravity’s effects.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023

You can get very close; thanks to laser cooling, physicists can chill atoms to a few millionths of a degree above the ultimate coldness.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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