Physicists have proposed a way to get their quantum motor running. An electric motor could be built from just two atoms held in a ring by lasers, a theoretical study published online June 8 in Physical Review Letters contends.
A proposed quantum motor would be made up of a carrier atom (brown with the arrow) and a starter atom (blue) trapped in a ring.
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