Right down to a cellular level, life requires water for survival. Predicting how liquid H2O squeezes its way through ...

In their system, the researchers trapped a hafnium fluoride ion in spinning electric fields. Between the hafnium and the fluoride atoms was a huge electric field, which could then trap an electron ...

Letter Published: 14 November 2016 Cooperatively enhanced dipole forces from artificial atoms in trapped nanodiamonds Mathieu L. Juan, Carlo Bradac, Benjamin Besga, Mattias Johnsson, Gavin Brennen ...

A laser, on the other hand, can draw the dipole moments of neutral particles towards the centre of its beam. But the resultant optical trap is relatively weak, and so ions – which are sensitive to ...

Here we achieve direct coupling between the motional dipoles of separately trapped ions over a distance of 54 micrometres, using the dipole–dipole interaction as a quantum mechanical ...

In an exciting development for the field of quantum computing, a team of scientists from Harvard University has successfully trapped molecules to perform quantum operations, marking a significant ...

State-of-the-art techniques make it possible to build a spin-chain quantum simulator based on laser-trapped circular Rydberg atoms. This simulator combines the flexibility of atomic lattices and the ...

Trap based on electric fields alone boosts the search for a non-zero electron electric dipole moment and other phenomena beyond the Standard Model ...

The researchers have also found evidence that, unlike normal water, a trapped molecule has a zero electric-dipole moment. The research could shed light on how water behaves when confined to tiny ...

In an RF trap, the electromagnetic field acts on the ion’s dipole moment, generating a force that keeps it confined. In an optical trap, the confinement arises from the optical dipole force.

Depending on the orientation of its dipole with respect to the electric field a molecule is either strongly trapped (anti-parallel orientation), weakly trapped (inclined) or, in the case of ...