{"id":27771,"date":"2016-07-12T19:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/missouri-st-physicist-works-to-predict-atom-movement"},"modified":"2016-07-19T07:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:09:31","slug":"missouri-st-physicist-works-to-predict-atom-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/missouri-st-physicist-works-to-predict-atom-movement","title":{"rendered":"Missouri S&amp;T physicist works to predict atom movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By laser-cooling atom clusters and studying their movements, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher hopes to better understand how atoms and their components are impacted and directed by environmental factors.<\/p>\n<p>With a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Daniel Fischer, assistant professor of physics at Missouri S&amp;T, tests the limits of quantum mechanics through his project titled \u201cControl and Analysis of Atomic Few-Body Dynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a hand-built vacuum chamber, Fischer manipulates lithium atoms by trapping them in a magnetic field and then shooting them with different lasers. This gives Fischer a large variety of initial states to test. Tests range from single, polarized atoms to larger groups that are laser-cooled to a consistent energy level. By doing so, Fischer works to help unravel the \u201cfew-body problem\u201d that continues to confound the world of physics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therolladailynews.com\/news\/20160712\/missouri-st-physicist-works-to-predict-atom-movement\">http:\/\/www.therolladailynews.com\/news\/20160712\/missouri-st-p...m-movement<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By laser-cooling atom clusters and studying their movements, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher hopes to better understand how atoms and their components are impacted and directed by environmental factors. With a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Daniel Fischer, assistant professor of physics at Missouri S&amp;T, tests the limits of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27771","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\/27771","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28018,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/28018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}