{"id":104979,"date":"2020-04-08T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-refrigerator-super-cools-molecules-to-nanokelvin-temperatures"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:42:49","slug":"new-refrigerator-super-cools-molecules-to-nanokelvin-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-refrigerator-super-cools-molecules-to-nanokelvin-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"New \u201crefrigerator\u201d super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-refrigerator-super-cools-molecules-to-nanokelvin-temperatures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollisional cooling has been the workhorse for cooling atoms,\u201d adds Nobel Prize laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. Arthur professor of physics at MIT. \u201cI wasn\u2019t convinced that our scheme would work, but since we didn\u2019t know for sure, we had to try it. We know now that it works for cooling sodium lithium molecules. Whether it will work for other classes of molecules remains to be seen.\u201d MIT School of Science, Harvard \u2014 MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, RLE at MIT \u2014 Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, #research #supercooledatoms #nanokelvin #WolfgangKetterle<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Technique may enable molecule-based quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCollisional cooling has been the workhorse for cooling atoms,\u201d adds Nobel Prize laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. Arthur professor of physics at MIT. \u201cI wasn\u2019t convinced that our scheme would work, but since we didn\u2019t know for sure, we had to try it. We know now that it works for cooling sodium lithium molecules. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}