laser cooling

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

From BBC

In their study, recently published in Physical Review Letters, they report that they were able to lower the temperature of a sound wave in an optical fiber initially at room temperature by 219 K using laser cooling, ten times further than had previously been reported.

From Science Daily

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

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 Literature

The experiment employed multiple standard approaches to reach its stunning precision, starting with the laser cooling of a cloud of rubidium atoms.

From Scientific American