John Bartolotta - Freezing quantum particles with lasers!

Freezing quantum particles with lasers!

When most people think of lasers, they imagine bright, high-powered beams capable of blasting massive holes through walls, leaving behind nothing but a molten mess. However, the physics community often uses them to achieve the very opposite effect: to knock the energy out of matter and cool them down to fractions of a Kelvin. Check out this CU-Prime talk to learn about the theoretical aspects of a new cooling method, developed by scientists at CU Boulder, which brings quantum particles down to sub-microKelvin temperatures by submitting them to frequency-changing laser beams.

John Bartolotta