A recent breakthrough is the use of artificial intelligence (AI), which learns how to manipulate atoms to improve a material’s properties.

After two decades of tinkering, scientists at NIST have unveiled the world’s most accurate atomic clock, a glowing ...

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Using advanced metasurfaces, researchers can now twist light to uncover hidden images and detect molecular handedness, ...

Researchers at the Jülich Research Center and the Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics (IHP) have developed a ...

Some relatively large approaches use optical-lattice clocks and ion trap clocks, and most clocks leverage microwave frequencies to induce these energy oscillations in atoms.

Top: Two renderings show how itinerant atoms in an atom trap (red) are suddenly frozen in place via an applied optical lattice and imaged via Raman sideband cooling. Bottom: Three microscope ...

A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity. Developed by physicists in Germany ...

What Are Optical Lattice Clocks? Optical lattice clocks (OLCs) are the most precise timekeeping devices ever developed, surpassing traditional atomic clocks in accuracy. They work by trapping neutral ...