Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...

Trapped ions have previously only been entangled in one and the same laboratory. Now, teams have entangled two ions over a distance of 230 meters. The nodes of this network were housed in two labs at ...

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"These clusters are referred to as super atoms, because their electronic character is like that of an atom, and now we know their spin properties are also similar," Smith said. "We identified 19 ...

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To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

On Thursday, the startup IonQ announced that the next generation of its ion-trap quantum computer was ready for use. The new machine marks a major jump for the company, going from 11 qubits up to 32.

There's waterproof and then there's the surface developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego. They've developed a surface so hydrophobic that it can actually be used to generate ...

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