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August 21, 2016

UCLA physicists discover 'apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics'
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2016
According to the basic laws of thermodynamics, if you leave a warm apple pie in a winter window eventually the pie would cool down to the same temperature as the surrounding air. For chemists and physicists, cooling samples of charged particles, also called ions, makes them easier to control and study. So they use a similar approach - called buffer gas cooling - to lower the temperature of ions by trapping them and then immersing them in clouds of cold atoms. Collisions with the atoms cool the ori ... read more

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