New Type of Atom Trap Developed at NIST
	Erbium is generally used in optical communication components, due to the magneto-optical properties it has and may one day be used to build optical computing systems and quantum computing. A new study conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, succeeded in cooling atoms of erbium to temperatures approaching two millionths of a degree about absolute zero, capturing it i ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia