{"id":112896,"date":"2020-09-11T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/laser-cooling-of-larger-quantum-objects"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T17:41:11","slug":"laser-cooling-of-larger-quantum-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/laser-cooling-of-larger-quantum-objects","title":{"rendered":"Laser cooling of larger quantum objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-cooling-of-larger-quantum-objects2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surfers have a concept they call progression. It is roughly the idea that each successive generation of wave riders is not constrained by the same idea of what is \u201cimpossible.\u201d Progression often comes in small steps, usually helped by improvements in technology but every so often\u2014like Laird Hamilton\u2019s Millennium Wave at Teahupoo, Tahiti (<em>1<\/em>)\u2014it comes in a giant leap when somebody does what everyone else was too scared to try. On page 1366 of this issue, Mitra <em>et al.<\/em> (<em>2<\/em>) have progressed molecular physics in a step that was unthinkable only a few years ago by laser-cooling a nonlinear polyatomic molecule, CaOCH<sub>3<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\" rel=\"license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an article distributed under the terms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\" rel=\"license\">Science Journals Default License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfers have a concept they call progression. It is roughly the idea that each successive generation of wave riders is not constrained by the same idea of what is \u201cimpossible.\u201d Progression often comes in small steps, usually helped by improvements in technology but every so often\u2014like Laird Hamilton\u2019s Millennium Wave at Teahupoo, Tahiti (1)\u2014it comes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112896","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}