Spinning atoms in light crystals (Phys.org) —After more than - TopicsExpress



          

Spinning atoms in light crystals (Phys.org) —After more than 40 years of intense research, experimental physicists still seek to explore the rich behaviour of electrons confined to a two-dimensional crystalline structure exposed to large magnetic fields. Now a team of scientists around Prof. Immanuel Bloch (Chair for Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Director at MPQ) in collaboration with the theoretical physicist Dr. Belén Paredes (CSIC/UAM Madrid) developed a new experimental method to simulate these systems using a crystal made of neutral atoms and laser light. In such artificial quantum matter, the atoms could be exposed to a uniform effective magnetic field several thousand times stronger than in typical condensed matter systems. Read more at: phys.org/news/2013-10-atoms-crystals.html#jCp
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:38:45 +0000

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