{"id":164696,"date":"2023-05-28T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-engineer-an-atom-laser-that-can-stay-on-forever"},"modified":"2023-05-28T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T16:43:56","slug":"physicists-engineer-an-atom-laser-that-can-stay-on-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-engineer-an-atom-laser-that-can-stay-on-forever","title":{"rendered":"Physicists engineer an atom laser that can stay on forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-engineer-an-atom-laser-that-can-stay-on-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics dictates that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves and that technically we can build <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/11-incredible-uses-of-laser-technology\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/11-incredible-uses-of-laser-technology\">\u2018atom lasers<\/a>\u2019 containing coherent waves of matter. The problem comes in making these matter waves last, so that they may be used in practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of Amsterdam physicists has shown that this is indeed possible with some manipulation of the concept that underlies the atom laser, the so-called Bose-Einstein Condensate, or BEC for short, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uva.nl\/en\/shared-content\/subsites\/institute-of-physics\/en\/news\/2022\/06\/eternal-matter-waves.html?cb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a press release<\/a> published on June 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum mechanics dictates that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves and that technically we can build \u2018atom lasers\u2019 containing coherent waves of matter. The problem comes in making these matter waves last, so that they may be used in practical applications. Now, a team of Amsterdam physicists has shown that this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164696","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}