To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics explores the quantum behaviour of electrons, atoms and light, and their mutual interactions across energy, length and time scales. In atoms and molecules, ...

The 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics begins May 30. Scientists from around the world will present new findings on atoms, simple ...

World-leading atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physicist David DeMille is looking for new particles and forces that could answer fundamental questions about the universe and solve some of the ...

State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics (MRAMP), WIPM CAS has the following research output in the current window (1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025) of the Nature ...

Atomic clocks record time using microwaves to measure the frequency of quantum vibrations of electrons. They are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there’s a new kid on the block, the ...

An extremely cold gas of strontium atoms is trapped in a web of light known as an optical lattice. The atoms are held in an ultrahigh-vacuum environment, which means there is almost no air or other ...

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years’ time, they could ...