laser cooling
Americannoun
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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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