Exploring the universe with a single trapped atom
A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship in physics
Our new paper, entitled “Observation of 3σ Nonlinear Isotope Shift in Yb+ Search for New Boson”, has just been posted online here today! The work described in our paper was done by a team of researchers in the Vuletic Group’s Ion Lab, at the Center for UltraCold Atoms at MIT, with input from collaborators at other institutes. …
Continue reading “Looking for dark matter using trapped Ytterbium ions”
The research described in this blog involves trapping one or a few single atoms inside an ultra-high vacuum system (a stainless steel chamber inside which the pressure is less than that on the surface of the moon). To trap the atoms, we first make them positively charged by removing one of their outer-shell electrons. Once …
