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Atomic physics with a circuit

Inspired by ideas and techniques for cooling atomic gases, an experiment demonstrates how the temperature of micrometre-scale electronic devices can be lowered using solid-state quantum circuits.

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Figure 1: Sisyphus cooling of atoms.
Figure 2: Sisyphus cooling of amplification of mesoscopic circuits4.

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Nori, F. Atomic physics with a circuit. Nature Phys 4, 589–590 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1044

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