Recent news on Rubidium

Teen wins Project of Year honors at state science fair  -  25 May 2007
Ventura County Star (subscription),His project, called "Laser Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium-87 Atoms Using MOL (optical molasses)," put him atop the middle school-aged division to win the

Galileo rubidium clocks - a year of in-orbit experience  -  May 24, 2007
Epicos.com (press release),Europe's first satellite-borne rubidium clocks have been in orbit for over a year. There is good news for the building of the Galileo system: the results

Galileo rubidium clocks - a year of in - orbit experience  -  May 24, 2007
Epicos.com (press release),Europe's first satellite-borne rubidium clocks have been in orbit for over a year. There is good news for the building of the Galileo system: the results

ESA: Rubidium clocks operating as expected  -  May 21, 2007
Science Daily (press release)PARIS, May 21 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says Europe's first satellite-borne rubidium clocks have been in orbit for more than a year,

ESA: Rubidium Clocks Operating As Expected  -  May 21, 2007
Post ChronicleThe European Space Agency says Europe's first satellite-borne rubidium clocks have been in orbit for more than a year, operating mostly as expected.

Galileo clocks keeping good time  -  May 21, 2007
iTWire,The rubidium clocks carried by the Galileo project's GIOVE-A satellite are operating largely as expected after their first year in orbit.

Hyper-accurate clocks – the beating heart of Galileo  -  May 12, 2007
YubaNet,The operational Galileo satellites will carry two types of clocks – passive hydrogen masers and rubidium atomic frequency standards.

Europe’s Galileo nav system touts super accurate clocks  -  May 11, 2007
TG DailyEurope’s competitor to the US GPS system, boasts several active and backup clocks powered by hydrogen and rubidium. The European Space Agency claims these

Physicists confirm existence of polariton condensate  -  May 17, 2007
PhysicsWeb,First created in 1995 from a gas of rubidium atoms, Bode-Einstein condensates (BECs) are systems in which a large number of bosons have collapsed into the

Bose-Einstein condensate makes sensitive magnetometer  -  May 22, 2007
HULIQ,The researchers created their device by cooling a gas of rubidium atoms (rubidium-87) to a mere 50 nanoKelvin - 50 billionths of a degree above absolute

ESA relies on nanosecond timekeeping  -  May 10, 2007
NewKerala.com,The ESA's Galileo satellites -- to become Europe's 21st century navigation system -- will carry two types of clocks -- passive hydrogen masers and rubidium

New Device Maps Magnetic Fields More Precisely Than Ever Before  -  May 21, 2007
Azom.comThe researchers created their device by cooling a gas of rubidium atoms (rubidium-87) to a mere 50 nanoKelvin - 50 billionths of a degree above absolute

Physicists Exploit Ultra-Cold Gases To Measure Ultra-Small  -  May 21, 2007
Photonics Online (press release),The researchers created their device by cooling a gas of rubidium atoms (rubidium-87) to a mere 50 nanoKelvin — 50 billionths of a degree above absolute

Ultra-cold gas makes great magnetometer  -  May 18, 2007
UC Berkeley,The ultra-cold gas of rubidium atoms can detect variations in magnetic field as small as one picoTesla, which is 50 million times smaller than Earth's

2007 California State Science Fair Winners Announced  -  May 23, 2007
WM Experts (press release),His project was titled "Laser Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium-87 Atoms Using MOL." Two special committees, one for each division, reviewed all first place,

Myocardial Perfusion PET: A New Tool for Chest Pain Evaluation in ...  -  Apr 27, 2007
AEM (subscription)To evaluate the accuracy of dipyridamole-induced reversible ischemia on myocardial perfusion PET imaging using Rubidium-82 (Rb-82 PET) as a predictor of

New Microfabricated Spectrometer from NIST  -  May 14, 2007
AZoNano.com,NIST has demonstrated the spectrometer with rubidium and cesium atoms, which absorb light at infrared, near-visible wavelengths, commonly used in atomic

Exposantenprofielen voor AES Pro Audio Expo en congres 2007  -  May 4, 2007
Netherlands Corporate News (persbericht),The family comprises a Rubidium Atomic Reference, two Oven-Controlled Master Clocks, and a re-clocking DA. Antelope Master Clocks is a premier choice for

Plenty of room for MRIs at a nano scale  -  Apr 29, 2007
USA TodayTo take a look, his team came up with a new kind of atomic force microscope probe, tipped with highly magnetic layers of iron, cobalt and rubidium.

Researchers Develop Observable Quantum Mechanics Experiment; Price ...  -  Apr 12, 2007
CrunchGear,Insane scienticians at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have come up with a magnetic cantilever that reacts to rubidium when super-cooled to near

New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical  -  Apr 10, 2007
Wired NewsWith a minute magnet attached at one end, the cantilever will make ultra-sensitive measurements of a cloud of several thousand laser-cooled rubidium atoms

Space pros reflect on history of GPS satellite No. 15  -  Apr 18, 2007
Spaceflight Now,..."What really brought the satellite down was successive rubidium clock failures in September and October," he said. "That's what finally made this vehicle

Evidence mounts for Bose glass  -  Apr 13, 2007
PhysicsWeb,...experimental evidence for a new state of matter called a Bose glass, which they created by cooling a sample of rubidium atoms to near absolute zero.

Super-cool atoms used in IC design  -  Apr 2, 2007
ElectronicsWeekly.com,...“You can control them by light,� said Hinds, “and the atoms we use are magnetic, typically rubidium, so we can push them around by changing the magnetic

MM National Weanling Sale catalogue online  -  Apr 2, 2007
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Galileo Sparring Leads to No Decision; Clock Running  -  27 Mar 2007
GPS World magazine,...on satellite platform, payload and operations; Galileo signal-in-space and receiver experimentation results; and onboard rubidium clock experimentation.

Turning Rubidium atom into single-photon server  -  Mar 12, 2007
HULIQ,The experiment uses a magneto-optical trap to prepare ultracold Rubidium atoms inside a vacuum chamber. These atoms are then trapped inside the cavity in

Ultra-Cool Physics  -  Mar 23, 2007
Colby News,Both projects concern the behaviors of dense vapors of ultra-cold rubidium atoms. The cold sample of rubidium atoms is made by slowing down the atoms'

Witnessing the life and times of a photon  -  Mar 22, 2007
Ars Technica,The wavelength of the photons in the cavity sits on the edge of a transition between two states for Rubidium atoms. This imperfect match between the light

Birth, life and death of a photon  -  Mar 19, 2007
ZDNetBut French researchers also have used ultra cold atoms of rubidium to record the full life of a photon. This was one of Einstein's dreams,

Photon's life cycle 'watched' in full  -  Mar 14, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),To observe the photon, the researchers passed rubidium atoms across the cavity one at a time. A single rubidium atom is unable to absorb a single photon,

A single-photon server  -  Mar 17, 2007
ZDNetThey've trapped ultra cold atoms of rubidium in a vacuum chamber and applied laser pulses from one side. The generated photons were of 'high quality,'

Researchers create single-photon server  -  Mar 19, 2007
engadget,The server was created by trapping a single Rubidium atom in a vacuum chamber and applying a laser pulse to it, which caused it to spit out one photon at a

A Single-Photon Server With Just One Atom  -  Mar 13, 2007
Photonics Online (press release),Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a Rubidium atom into a single-photon server.

A Single-Photon Server With Just One Atom  -  Mar 13, 2007
Technocrat.net,Physicists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have succeeded in turning a Rubidium atom into a single-photon server. This means that they can,

Full Text  -  Mar 1, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)This Week in Science: "Rubidium-rich stars" (15 Dec. 2006, p. 1653). Both instances of " 87 Ru" should have read " 87 Rb." Rb is the symbol for the element

Single-Photon Server Created From an Atom  -  Mar 19, 2007
Photonics.com,GARCHING, Germany, March 19, 2007 -- Physicists have succeeded in turning a rubidium atom into a single-photon server, which could allow scientists to

Space pros reflect on history of GPS SVN-15  -  Mar 21, 2007
Schriever Air Force Base,..."What really brought the satellite down was successive rubidium clock failures in September and October," he said. "That's what finally made this vehicle

Makin to sell draft of mares in foal to Starcraft  -  Mar 18, 2007
ThoroughbredNews.co.nz,Social Glow, Very Sydney, Zingo, Lady Natasha, Macrosa, For the Moment, Cianara, Carlton Spirit, Dragon Maiden, Madame Shinko, Kilspindie and Rubidium.

Warming Up to Criticality: Quantum change, one bubble at a time  -  Mar 16, 2007
Science NewsEngland magnetically confined a Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium atoms and let it spontaneously warm, crossing the critical temperature in reverse.

Physicists watch the "birth, life and death of a photon"  -  Mar 15, 2007
Optics.org,The presence of a photon is detected by passing a stream of rubidium atoms though the cavity. These are so-called Rydberg atoms, which have an electron in a

Einstein's box snares photon  -  Mar 14, 2007
ABC Science Online,The French team says it has found the answer in a stream of rubidium atoms, which cross the box in which the photon is trapped.

Envisaged by Einstein, photon trap is built  -  Mar 14, 2007
Cosmos,The French team, who report their work in the British journal Nature today, say they found their counter in the form of a stream of rubidium atoms,

County purchases new equipment for 911 tower sites  -  Mar 12, 2007
The County Press,It has a very low-level radioactive substance called rubidium that moves at a superior constant rate. What this does is keep time to tune and keep tuned our

Star Queensland Mares Are Top National Sale Prospects  -  Mar 8, 2007
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Atom 'noise' may help design quantum computers  -  Mar 6, 2007
innovations report,As if building a computer out of rubidium atoms and laser beams weren't difficult enough, scientists sometimes have to work as if blindfolded: The quirks of

Designing Quantum Computers  -  Mar 5, 2007
Technology News Daily,As if building a computer out of rubidium atoms and laser beams weren’t difficult enough, scientists sometimes have to work as if blindfolded: The quirks of

GIOVE-A2 to secure the Galileo programme  -  Mar 5, 2007
European Space Agency,...tracking the position of GIOVE-A which enabled ESA to test the performance of the satellite’s state-of-the-art onboard rubidium atomic frequency clock.

Atom 'Noise' May Help Design Quantum Computers  -  Mar 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — As if building a computer out of rubidium atoms and laser beams weren't difficult enough, scientists sometimes have to work as if

Steering atoms toward better navigation, physicists test Newton ...  -  Feb 20, 2007
innovations report,Two different isotopes of rubidium are cooled to ultralow temperature and released into free fall. The wave-like atoms fall very slowly, "like releasing a

Research Highlights  -  Feb 14, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),They measured the force between one solid body — a glass plate — and a small cloud of rubidium atoms held close to the plate. The team saw the force almost

United Carina Announces Results of Drill Program  -  Feb 13, 2007
The Northern Miner (subscription),In addition to assaying for copper and gold, selected samples are being assayed for strontium, rubidium and gallium. Further results will be announced when

JILA Measurements Recast Usual View of Elusive Force  -  Feb 11, 2007
Nanotechwire.com,To measure the Casimir-Polder force, a BEC of about 250000 rubidium atoms in a magnetic trap was placed a few micrometers from a glass plate.

THE CASIMIR EFFECT HEATS UP  -  Feb 7, 2007
ZPEnergyThe Colorado group sent ultracold rubidium atoms to within a few microns of a glass surface. Doubling the temperature of the glass to 600 degrees Kelvin

Network Equipment Technologies Announces General Availability of ...  -  Feb 1, 2007
Internet Ad Sales (press release),The NX1000 also offers higher speed data interfaces, diskless data storage, and an optional rubidium atomic clock module to provide a high level of accuracy

The Lithium Is Out There  -  Jan 30, 2007
Resource Investor,Beginning with lithium, the other alkali metals, in order of increasing atomic weight, are sodium, potassium, cesium and rubidium. Sodium and potassium are

France in Space #367  -  18 Jan 2007
Space Ref (press release)...objectives of the mission including the verification of critical technologies such as the on-board Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standard (RAFS) clocks,

Right place at tyhe right time  -  Jan 16, 2007
Cambridge Evening News,..."Using rubidium is safer, but not accurate enough. Users tend to combine the two - rubidium clocks corrected by GPS caesium signals but these are weak and

Coldest place in the state found at USM  -  Jan 1, 2007
Hattiesburg American,One of my colleagues in the physics department at the University of Southern Mississippi experiments with rubidium atoms. Rubidium isn't an element one

Think twice before buying those stars  -  Jan 15, 2007
Hattiesburg American,But the cold felt by those rubidium atoms will be nothing compared to the cold shoulder you'll feel if you don't treat your significant other right on

Cluster Resources opens Cambridge base  -  Jan 10, 2007
Business Weekly,...all requiring increasingly accurate time sources, OptiSynx says it offers the only alternative to the caesium atomic clock or the rubidium+GPS clock.

Vortex Pinning in Bose-Einstein Condensates May Help Explain ...  -  Jan 3, 2007
Azom.comThe JILA experiments were performed with 3 million rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap. A superfluid of vortices was created by spinning the trap.

A little distraction in Einstein’s theory deprived physics of the ...  -  Dec 25, 2006
India Daily,Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin (nK).

Magnetic Resonance in an Atomic Vapor Excited by a Mechanical ...  -  26 Dec 2006
AZoNano.com,...team used a vibrating microscale cantilever, a tiny plank anchored at one end like a diving board, to drive magnetic oscillations in rubidium atoms.

Now, an 'ultra-cold atomic clock'!  -  26 Dec 2006
Hindustan Times,One of the major application for cold atoms is in making better atomic clocks which depend on the natural atomic frequency of cesium or rubidium atom to

Mechanical Action Used To Spin Atoms  -  Dec 11, 2006
Playfuls.com,The NIST team said they used a vibrating microscale cantilever to drive magnetic oscillations in rubidium atoms. The scientists attached a tiny magnetic

A little distraction in Einstein’s theory deprived physics of the ...  -  Dec 25, 2006
India Daily,Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin (nK).

Kids discover science is fun  -  Dec 4, 2006
UW Badger Herald,In honor of the 37th lecture, rubidium, which has an atomic number of 37, was used in several reactions during the program.

Free fermion antibunching in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas ...  -  Dec 7, 2006
Nature.com (subscription),After removing the rubidium cloud completely via a resonant laser pulse, we are left with a single component Fermi gas of typically 2.0(5) 10 5 atoms at an

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