How do you handle the coldest atoms on Earth without heating them up? With a laser, says Aaron E. Leanhardt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
That may seem like precisely what you don’t need for the task. However, Leanhardt and his colleagues have now used a laser to grip clouds of ultracold atoms and drag them 30 centimeters.
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