Katie McCormick in NIST Ion Trapping Lab (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Katie McCormick in NIST Ion Trapping Lab

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NIST physicist Katie McCormick adjusts a mirror to steer a laser beam used to cool a trapped beryllium ion (electrically charged atom). McCormick and colleagues got the ion to display record-setting levels of quantum motion, an advance that can improve quantum measurements and quantum computing.

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