{"id":155236,"date":"2023-01-12T06:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-perfect-little-system-physicists-isolate-a-pair-of-atoms-to-observe-p-wave-interaction-strength-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:23:05","slug":"a-perfect-little-system-physicists-isolate-a-pair-of-atoms-to-observe-p-wave-interaction-strength-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-perfect-little-system-physicists-isolate-a-pair-of-atoms-to-observe-p-wave-interaction-strength-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A perfect little system\u2019: Physicists isolate a pair of atoms to observe p-wave interaction strength for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-perfect-little-system-physicists-isolate-a-pair-of-atoms-to-observe-p-wave-interaction-strength-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuppose you knew everything there was to know about a water molecule\u2014the chemical formula, the bond angle, etc.,\u201d says Joseph Thywissen, a professor in the Department of Physics and a member of the Centre for Quantum Information &amp; Quantum Control at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might know everything about the molecule, but still not know there are waves on the ocean, much less how to surf them,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s because when you put a bunch of molecules together, they behave in a way you probably cannot anticipate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thywissen is describing the concept in physics known as emergence: the relationship between the behavior and characteristics of individual particles and large numbers of those particles. He and his collaborators have taken a first step in understanding this transition from \u201cone-to-many\u201d particles by studying not one, not many, but two isolated, interacting particles, in this case potassium atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSuppose you knew everything there was to know about a water molecule\u2014the chemical formula, the bond angle, etc.,\u201d says Joseph Thywissen, a professor in the Department of Physics and a member of the Centre for Quantum Information &amp; Quantum Control at the University of Toronto. \u201cYou might know everything about the molecule, but still not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155236","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=155236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}