{"id":27803,"date":"2016-07-13T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicists-collide-ultracold-atoms-to-observe-key-quantum-principle"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:40:46","slug":"physicists-collide-ultracold-atoms-to-observe-key-quantum-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/physicists-collide-ultracold-atoms-to-observe-key-quantum-principle","title":{"rendered":"Physicists collide ultracold atoms to observe key quantum principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-collide-ultracold-atoms-to-observe-key-quantum-principle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from New Zealand\u2019s University of Otago have used steerable \u2018optical tweezers\u2019 to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slowly smash them together to directly observe a key theoretical principle of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The principle, known as Pauli Exclusion, places fundamental constraints on the behavior of groups of identical particles and underpins the structure and stability of atoms as well as the mechanical, electrical, magnetic and chemical properties of almost all materials.<\/p>\n<p>Otago Physics researcher Associate Professor Niels Kj\u00e6rgaard led the research, which is newly published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications (\u201cMultiple scattering dynamics of fermions at an isolated p-wave resonance\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-collide-ultracold-atoms-to-observe-key-quantum-principle.jpg\" alt=\"Observing the Pauli Exclusion Principle by Slowly Colliding Atomic Clouds\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43899.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43899.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists from New Zealand\u2019s University of Otago have used steerable \u2018optical tweezers\u2019 to split minute clouds of ultracold atoms and slowly smash them together to directly observe a key theoretical principle of quantum mechanics. The principle, known as Pauli Exclusion, places fundamental constraints on the behavior of groups of identical particles and underpins the structure [\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-27803","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\/27803","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=27803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66943,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27803\/revisions\/66943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}