Scientists at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) have indigenously built an experimental facility to simultaneously cool and trap a large number of sodium and potassium atoms near absolute zero temperatures using laser light and magnetic fields.
With this, RRI said that it has joined the handful of laboratories globally to demonstrate such efficient simultaneous production of a mixture of two species of ultra-cold neutral atoms with inter-species interactions control.
Results from this experiment can deepen the knowledge required for developing quantum technologies such as quantum computing, quantum sensing and metrology, all of which are the frontier areas of research, RRI said.
