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Collisions Keep Cold Atoms Alive (3 of 3)

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Collisions Keep Cold Atoms Alive (3 of 3)

image: Cold molecules (blue spheres) subject to a periodic potential would normally move between different sites. However, with a strong inelastic inter-particle interaction, the particles are frozen in their initial state which contains exactly one particle at each site. This image relates to an article that appeared in the June 6, 2008, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Niels Syassen and colleagues at Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany, was titled "Strong Dissipation Inhibits Losses and Induces Correlations in Cold Molecular Gases." view more 

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