{"id":9933,"date":"2011-09-30T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2011-09-30T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T08:00:05","slug":"cold-atoms-reveal-their-crystalline-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9933","title":{"rendered":"Cold Atoms Reveal Their Crystalline Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v28\/st12\">Cold Atoms Reveal Their Crystalline Nature<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cold atoms in an optical trap can behave like the electrons in a solid crystal. The traps, which are easily manipulated, provide researchers with a test bed for understanding real crystals. Now a team reports 23 September in <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em> that they have extracted from this kind of simulated crystal an essential property&#8211;the band structure&#8211;that in real crystals characterizes the conductivity and related parameters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Atoms Reveal Their Crystalline Nature Cold atoms in an optical trap can behave like the electrons in a solid crystal. The traps, which are easily manipulated, provide researchers with a test bed for understanding real crystals. Now a team &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9933\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","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=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}