Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing reliable quantum technologies.

An alkali-vapor magnetometer polarizes a vapor of alkali-metal atoms, either potassium, rubidium, or cesium, inside a glass cell using a circularly-polarized "pump" laser beam.

The team developed a technique to insert dense alkali metals between graphene layers. Utilizing a high-performance low-voltage (60 kV) electron microscope, they have successfully observed the ...

A method for introducing dense alkali metals in between graphene layers has been devised by the researchers. They have successfully observed the arrangement structure of alkali metal atoms between the ...

A technique to stabilize alkali metal vapor density using gold nanoparticles, so electrons can be accessed for applications including quantum computing, atom cooling and precision measurements ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high temperature and pressure between two sapphires ...

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As a first step, the physicists dissolved alkali metals such as lithium and sodium in ammonia, forming solutions. The metal atoms become positively charged ions and their outer electrons are drawn ...

Sheets of metal just two atoms thick can be produced by squashing molten droplets at great pressure between two sapphires. The researchers who developed the process say the unusual materials could ...

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