Physics professor Mark Saffman, affiliate professor Mikhail Kats and their groups have developed a simplified but ingenious method for trapping atoms of different species to make quantum bits or qubits, they published in Science Advances. Capturing two types of neutral atoms next to each other, the method creates interleaved grids of cesium and rubidium atoms …
Once only a part of science fiction, lasers are now everyday objects used in research, healthcare and even just for fun. Previously available only in low-energy light, lasers now come in wavelengths from microwaves through X-rays, opening up a range of different downstream applications. In a study in Nature, a team led by UW–Madison scientists …
The first images of the greatest cosmic movie ever made were released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory this past summer, and one of the “directors” was UW–Madison physics professor Keith Bechtol. It’s a story a decade in the making for Bechtol, who served in a leadership role as the observatory’s System Verification and Validation …