The World's Smallest Engine (IMAGE)

Trinity College Dublin

The World's Smallest Engine

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The world's smallest engine works due to its intrinsic spin, which converts heat absorbed from laser beams into oscillations, or vibrations, of the trapped ion.

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Professor Goold, Trinity College Dublin.

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