{"id":1770,"date":"2009-03-09T03:25:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2009-03-09T03:25:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T08:25:19","slug":"those-kinky-alkali-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1770","title":{"rendered":"Those Kinky Alkali Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/02\/090225151341.htm\">Cross-dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues For Exotic Computing<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their experiment, they cause a gas of rubidium-87 to form an ultracold state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Then, laser light from two opposite directions bathes or \u201cdresses\u201d the rubidium atoms in the gas. The laser light interacts with the atoms, shifting their energy levels in a peculiar momentum-dependent manner. One nifty consequence of this is that the atoms now react to a magnetic field gradient in a way mathematically identical to the reaction of charged particles like electrons to a uniform magnetic field. \u201cWe can make our neutral atoms have the same equations of motion as charged particles do in a magnetic field,\u201d says Spielman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Cross-Dressing<\/em>?  Someone has broken into the liquor cabinet again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues For Exotic Computing In their experiment, they cause a gas of rubidium-87 to form an ultracold state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Then, laser light from two opposite directions bathes or \u201cdresses\u201d the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}