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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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