{"id":326777,"date":"2017-06-07T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=607954011fec9e5dd5d7aca61685242a"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:10:32","slug":"how-to-reduce-shockwaves-in-quantum-beam-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=326777","title":{"rendered":"How to reduce shockwaves in quantum beam experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny cone-shaped &#8220;skimmers&#8221; used in experiments looking for exotic chemical-quantum phenomena resemble the intake mechanisms of aircraft engines, and they perform similar functions: Each directs the flow of gas &#8211; the engine intake controls the supply of air for burning fuel, and the &#8220;skimmer&#8221; creates beams of cold flying atoms or molecules. While skimmers have been a necessary component in atomic and molecular-beam experiments for decades, they were also known to impose a fundamental limit on the number of particles one could pack into the beam. However, Prof. Edvardas Narevicius and his team in the Weizmann Institute of Science&#8217;s Chemical Physics Department have now revealed a simple way to overcome this limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny cone-shaped &#8220;skimmers&#8221; used in experiments looking for exotic chemical-quantum phenomena resemble the intake mechanisms of aircraft engines, and they perform similar functions: Each directs the flow of gas &#8211; the engine intake controls the supp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326778,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326777\/revisions\/326778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}