Thermonuclear fusion creates a hot plasma — a state of matter formed of ions and electrons rather than the electrically neutral atoms that are found in gas — that can be confined, for example ...

But the CMB itself cannot be seen until the Universe forms neutral atoms out of its ions and electrons, which takes hundreds of thousands of years. Chris Blake and Sam Moorfield.

Mar. 11, 2022 — When we think of ions, we usually think of single atoms that have lost or gained some electrons, but entire molecules can also become ions. Physicists now show that cold ...

What started out as an ordinary but extremely cold gas--a bunch of neutral atoms moving around fairly freely, ... so the ions are packed closely enough to make the interaction energy enormous.

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...

The experiments indicated that the original gold adatoms were in a neutral state while applying a positive voltage gave the adatoms a negative charge. “The chemical and physical properties of ions in ...

This kinetic energy is dispersed in the neutral atoms of the buffer gas, which heats the gas. After laser cooling was developed in the 1980s, it became possible to cool ions to extremely low ...

These ions are subject to magnetic forces that do not affect electrically neutral atoms. If there are not too many collisions in the plasma, both particle types can flow independently of each other.

The atoms typically prefer to sit where the light field is most intense. And there’s a problem with ions: They all have an electric charge of the same sign. That means the qubits repel one another.

Technology First fully programmable quantum computer based on neutral atoms. Most quantum computers are based on superconductors or trapped ions, but an alternative approach using ordinary atoms ...

Conventional as well as compact laser-based particle acceleration schemes hinge on accelerating electric fields and are therefore ineffective for neutral atoms, which do not respond to these fields.

Spin-entangled states between two neutral atoms in different optical tweezers are prepared by combining them in the same optical tweezer and allowing for controlled interactions, after which the ...