Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Trapping Rydberg Atoms

Trapping Rydberg Atoms
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:11:45 -0600

An artist

An artist's depiction of Rydberg atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice--a crate made of interfering laser beams. Researchers from the University of Michigan department of physics, who developed the trap, believe this achievement could help enable fast quantum computers.

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