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New System Detects Arrival of Single Atoms Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Physics
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Scientists have devised a new technique for real-time detection of freely moving individual neutral atoms that is more than 99.7% accurate and sensitive enough to discern the arrival of a single atom in less than one-millionth of a second, about 20 times faster than the best previous methods. The system is described in Advance Online Publication at the Nature Physics web site by researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) in College Park, MD. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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