{"id":116900,"date":"2020-12-09T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-tools-turn-on-quantum-gases-of-ultracold-molecules"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:22:17","slug":"new-tools-turn-on-quantum-gases-of-ultracold-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/new-tools-turn-on-quantum-gases-of-ultracold-molecules","title":{"rendered":"New tools \u2018turn on\u2019 quantum gases of ultracold molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tools-turn-on-quantum-gases-of-ultracold-molecules.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JILA researchers have developed tools to \u201cturn on\u201d quantum gases of ultracold molecules, gaining control of long-distance molecular interactions for potential applications such as encoding data for quantum computing and simulations.<\/p>\n<p>The new scheme for nudging a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+gas\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular gas<\/a> down to its lowest energy state, called quantum degeneracy, while suppressing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> that break up <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecules\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecules<\/a> finally makes it possible to explore exotic quantum states in which all the molecules interact with one another.<\/p>\n<p>The research is described in the Dec. 10 issue of <i>Nature<\/i>. JILA is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JILA researchers have developed tools to \u201cturn on\u201d quantum gases of ultracold molecules, gaining control of long-distance molecular interactions for potential applications such as encoding data for quantum computing and simulations. The new scheme for nudging a molecular gas down to its lowest energy state, called quantum degeneracy, while suppressing chemical reactions that break up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116900","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}