atom

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“The cloud was swelling into a mushroom, looking like an atom bomb had gone off,” Barry remembered.

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A team led by physicists at Stanford University has developed a new kind of optical cavity that can efficiently capture single photons, the basic particles of light, emitted by individual atoms.

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Over the past century, research into atoms, electrons, and photons led to the invention of transistors and the foundation of today's computers.

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It behaves much like a natural molecule, but instead of atoms, it is built from tiny superconducting electrical circuits.

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Rather than studying actual materials, the researchers recreated the model using lithium atoms cooled to billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

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