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Published online 15 June 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010614-14
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Atoms shunted and shot
A laser conveyor belt makes light work of moving atoms.
Researchers in Germany have made an atomic conveyor belt and catapult from light. Stefan Kuhr and co-workers at the University of Bonn can move single atoms around, put them down where they are needed and launch them into space at a specified speed.
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