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Low-temperature physics

Low-temperature physics

Cold: how physicists learned to manipulate and move particles with laser cooling

(CC BY 2.0 James Millen, UCL Physics & Astronomy)
01 Aug 2023

The advent of laser cooling revolutionized the field of atomic physics, transforming atomic clocks and GPS technology and laying the foundations for quantum computing with atoms and ions. In the first of a three-part series, Chad Orzel tells the story of its early years

Bottled up An optical bottle holds a glass particle aloft at Bell Labs in June 1971. Laser light pas

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Chad Orzel is a popular-science author and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in the US.  He has a PhD in chemical physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied laser cooling at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the lab of Bill Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics
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