Cooling atomic gases to the quantum regime often involves time-consuming steps. Electromagnetically induced transparency now achieves quantum degeneracy with high efficiency. ANSTO scientists, Dr ...

But the gravity of the neutron star keeps everything bound together. Down to a depth of roughly a kilometer, atomic nuclei can hold hundreds of neutrons at a time. But even that has a limit.

"We studied very carefully the atomic spectra of these two species and made plans on how to combine them and reach simultaneous quantum degeneracy", says Philipp Ilzhöfer, one of the two leading ...

Altermagnets are magnetic materials that have no net magnetization (i.e., their atomic magnetic moments cancel each other out), like antiferromagnets. Yet they also break spin degeneracy (i.e ...