Laser-cooled atoms clinch Nobel prize

摘要

The first observation of Bosc-Einstein condensation, two years ago, is perhaps the most dramatic application so far of the work that has won three physicists the 1997 Nobel prize. Steve Ghu of Stanford University in the US, Claude Cohen-Tarinoiidji of the College cle France and the Ecole Ntirmalc Superieure in Paris, and Bill Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithers-burg, US, have won the award for their development of methods to cool and trap atoms using laser light.