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New quantum cooling technology opens the way to ultra-cold temperatures

Spektrum der Wissenschaft
15.3.2024
Translation: machine translated

Until now, cryostats or laser cooling have been used to cool down particle systems. However, researchers have now found a third cooling technique that is based on quantum mechanics.

The MIT team therefore calculated what happens when the non-Hermitian skin effect is applied to such oscillations: According to this, the heat of the system would accumulate at one end of the rod, while the other end would cool down rapidly. By applying this method to systems that are already cooled - for example by lasers - the researchers hope to achieve even lower temperatures close to zero in the future.

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