{"id":86378,"date":"2019-01-04T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/next-up-ultracold-simulators-of-super-dense-stars"},"modified":"2019-01-04T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:02:22","slug":"next-up-ultracold-simulators-of-super-dense-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/next-up-ultracold-simulators-of-super-dense-stars","title":{"rendered":"Next up: Ultracold simulators of super-dense stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kB767cjUpQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rice University physicists have created the world\u2019s first laser-cooled neutral plasma, completing a 20-year quest that sets the stage for simulators that re-create exotic states of matter found inside Jupiter and white dwarf stars.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are detailed this week in the journal <i>Science<\/i> and involve new techniques for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> cooling clouds of rapidly expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma<\/a> to temperatures about 50 times colder than deep space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know the practical payoff yet, but every time physicists have laser cooled a new kind of thing, it has opened a whole world of possibilities,\u201d said lead scientist Tom Killian, professor of physics and astronomy at Rice. \u201cNobody predicted that laser cooling atoms and ions would lead to the world\u2019s most accurate clocks or breakthroughs in quantum computing. We do this because it\u2019s a frontier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-01-ultracold-simulators-super-dense-stars.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;01-ultracold-simulators-super-dense-stars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University physicists have created the world\u2019s first laser-cooled neutral plasma, completing a 20-year quest that sets the stage for simulators that re-create exotic states of matter found inside Jupiter and white dwarf stars. The findings are detailed this week in the journal Science and involve new techniques for laser cooling clouds of rapidly expanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86378","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}