laser cooling

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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Until now, such conditions have never been achieved simultaneously without the use of laser cooling.

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