Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered the element Rubidium in 1861 with the help of a spectroscope while analyzing a mineral called lepidolite. When the mineral was heated, Bunsen and ...

Lone photon: the new device will extract exactly one photon from a beam of light. (Courtesy: Christoph Tresp) Physicists in Germany have created a new optical device that can absorb exactly one photon ...

QUANTUM mechanics, the theory that explains how the universe's fundamental particles behave, thrives on reconciling opposites. According to its topsy-turvy tenets, it is perfectly all right for a ...

Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium can be used to calibrate the applied magnetic field very precisely, which in ...

A research team led by Prof. PENG Xinhua and Associate Prof. JIANG Min from University of Science and Technology China (USTC) of China Academy of Sciences (CAS), has, for the first time, realized the ...

There are two coexisting, competing quantum shapes at low energy in 98Kr, never before seen for neutron-rich Kr isotopes, report scientists. The team also showed that these isotopes experience a ...