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Laser makes molecules super-cool

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Molecules could one day work as quantum computers.

Using lasers, scientists have chilled a dipolar molecule to a temperature just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero (around –273 °C) — an important step in the race to generate new kinds of ultra-cold matter that could be used for everything from quantum computing to chemistry.

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  1. Shuman, E. S., Barry, J. F. & DeMille, D. Nature advance online publication doi:10.1038/nature09443 (2010).

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Brumfiel, G. Laser makes molecules super-cool. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.478

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