{"id":24584,"date":"2010-04-01T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=24584"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:15:04","slug":"24584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/24584\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics highlights Lundblad&#8217;s work to solve &#8216;annoying situation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journal <em>Physics <\/em>highlights Bates physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/~nlundbla\/\">Nathan Lundblad<\/a>&#8216;s efforts, with colleagues, to solve an &#8220;annoying situation&#8221; involving optically trapped atoms and the broadening of their resonance frequencies, a problem caused by the trap itself. &#8220;The idea,&#8221; he tells us, &#8220;is that untrapped atoms in a vacuum have a &#8216;true&#8217; resonance frequency or energy separation, and the fact that we trap them (to make something useful) blurs this resonance.&#8221;\u00a0The worse the blurring, the worse the instrument using such atoms, like an atomic clock or quantum computer. The experiment cited in <em>Physics<\/em> seems to solve this problem, making trapped atoms respond spectroscopically as if they were still in a vacuum.<a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevA.81.031611\"> View story from <em>Physics,<\/em> March 30, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cold calculations fuel rare Defense Department grant for Bates College\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQJ5rrx6RBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also, view a video of Lundblad <\/a>talking about his research on the behavior of atoms at near absolute zero that won a competitive $388,000 Department of Defense grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journal Physics highlights Bates physicist Nathan Lundblad&#8216;s efforts, with colleagues, to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,133,14,217],"tags":[10765],"class_list":["post-24584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-creativity","category-faculty-staff","category-science-technology","tag-physics-and-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76845,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24584\/revisions\/76845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}