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Optical Trapping of Objects Is Among the Most Exciting Applications of a Laser
Reg. No: 2016/23/P/ST3/02156; Principal Investigator: dr inż. Paweł Karpiński Optical trapping of objects is among the most exciting applications of a laser. Started by Arthur Ashkin in 1970s it brought manifold of intriguing discoveries in physics, chemistry and biology. Among the most exciting applications in physics one can point out the laser induced cooling and realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic vapors (Nobel prize in 1997 for Stephen Chou, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips). In chemistry and biology one can mention a single molecule force spectroscopy, with studies of a single DNA being the one of the most recognizable achievements. More than 30 years after realization of the first optical tweezers there are still a lot of exciting effects and basic studies realized today. The nonequilibrium thermodynamics and Brownian motion of single particle trapped with highly intense laser light is not fully described and its understanding may potentially lead to very interesting new discoveries such as microscopic engines with efficiency higher than the Carnot engine. In standard optical tweezers a single Gaussian laser beam is used to trap and manipulate objects. The degree of control of optical forces can be greatly increased by controlling both the key parameters of the beam and the particles. The alignment and light induced motion of a particle can be better controlled in an optical trap when beam shape, phase or polarization are not trivial, e.g. using cylindrical vector beams known also as structured light. Three dimensional vector structure of an optical field can carry momentum, spin and orbital angular momentum which might be transferred from light to the trapped object. -
World's Leading Scientists and Technologists to Gather at the Global
MEDIA RELEASE WORLD’S LEADING SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS TO GATHER AT THE GLOBAL YOUNG SCIENTISTS SUMMIT 2021 Summit will host 21 eminent scientists including Nobel Laureates, who will engage and share first-hand insights in science and research with over 500 young scientists from 30 countries 6 JANUARY 2021, SINGAPORE – The National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) will host the ninth edition of the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS), which will see the gathering of the world’s foremost scientists and technologists engage and inspire aspiring young scientists. Held virtually from 12 to 15 January 2021, the eminent scientists will also discuss the latest advances in research and how they can be used to develop solutions to address major global challenges. The Summit will be graced by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of NRF, Mr Heng Swee Keat, who will deliver the opening address. The GYSS is a multi-disciplinary event covering the disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. During the event, luminary scientists and technologists will share details of their discoveries by delivering plenary addresses, participating in panel discussions, and engaging with the young scientists in small group discussions. They will also provide mentorship to over 500 young researchers from more than 30 countries. Star-studded panel speaking on a wide range of subjects and issues This year, the GYSS sees 21 speakers, the highest number since the start of the Summit, of whom 17 are speaking at the Summit for the first time. The list includes Nobel Laureates, Fields Medallists, Millennium Technology Prize and the Turing Award winners. -
The Emergence of Radioecology
Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09602-8 — Radioecology R. J. Pentreath Excerpt More Information 1 The Emergence of Radioecology 1.1 Glowing in the Dark On the frieze of the south-west facing Grenelle side of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, sandwiched between the names of Broca and Coriolis, is the name Becquerel. Paul Broca was a gifted physician and anthropologist and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis a famous engineer and scientist. Antoine César Becquerel, however, was a physicist who, with his son Alexandre- Edmund, had made major contributions to the study of electricity. Alexandre-Edmund was himself to make major contributions to science, not only in relation to the study of electricity but also to the early development of photography; he was very interested in the curious phenomena of luminescence and phosphorescence as well. But it was Alexandre-Edmund’s son, Antoine Henri Becquerel, who was to stumble upon a completely different phenom- enon that was to change forever our understanding of the world around us, and that phenomenon was radioactivity. Just as fortunate, perhaps, was the fact that Henri did so only because of the very recent discovery of what we now know as ionising radiation by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, and that discovery had been very dramatic indeed. Röntgen had been experimenting with the discharge of electricity in vacuum tubes that had metal plates sealed into their ends so that they could be connected to a battery or an induction coil. Such tubes, first produced by Johann Geissler in 1857, had been used by Julius Plücker in 1858 to study the nature of electricity, the flow of which caused a glowing light to emerge from the negative plate (the cathode) and then disappear into the positive plate (the anode). -
Eindhoven University of Technology BACHELOR Creating Rydberg
Eindhoven University of Technology BACHELOR Creating Rydberg crystals in ultra-cold gases using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage schemes Plantz, N.W.M.; van der Wurff, E.C.I. Award date: 2012 Link to publication Disclaimer This document contains a student thesis (bachelor's or master's), as authored by a student at Eindhoven University of Technology. Student theses are made available in the TU/e repository upon obtaining the required degree. The grade received is not published on the document as presented in the repository. The required complexity or quality of research of student theses may vary by program, and the required minimum study period may vary in duration. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Applied Physics Coherence and Quantum Technology group CQT 2012-08 Creating Rydberg crystals in ultra-cold gases using Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage Schemes N.W.M. Plantz & E.C.I. van der Wurff July 2012 Supervisors: ir. R.M.W. van Bijnen dr. ir. S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans dr. ir. E.J.D. Vredenbregt Abstract This report is the result of a bachelor internship of two applied physics students. -
The Struggle for Quantum Theory 47 5.1Aliensignals
Fundamental Forces of Nature The Story of Gauge Fields This page intentionally left blank Fundamental Forces of Nature The Story of Gauge Fields Kerson Huang Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA World Scientific N E W J E R S E Y • L O N D O N • S I N G A P O R E • B E I J I N G • S H A N G H A I • H O N G K O N G • TA I P E I • C H E N N A I Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE The Story of Gauge Fields Copyright © 2007 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN-13 978-981-270-644-7 ISBN-10 981-270-644-5 ISBN-13 978-981-270-645-4 (pbk) ISBN-10 981-270-645-3 (pbk) Printed in Singapore. -
Chad Orzel Graduated from the Whitney Point Central School District in 1989 As Valedictorian of His Class
Chad R Orzel Alumnus Inducted June 15, 2013 Chad Orzel graduated from the Whitney Point Central School District in 1989 as valedictorian of his class. He went on to study physics at Williams College in Massachusetts, and earned his Ph. D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park under Nobel Laureate William Daniel Phillips. Chad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College where he teaches and researches atomic physics and quantum optics. Chad's passion for science and physics transcends the classroom. He wants every person to be able to understand the principles of physics and realize their relevance to everyday life. He has written two books, How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, in which he explains those concepts through conversations with his dog, Emmy. Chad has authored and co-authored many articles which have appeared in scientific journals and publications. He has presented at conferences and been invited to speak nationally and internationally on a variety of physics related topics. Chad feels that beyond a collection of facts, science is an approach to the world. Several years ago Chad shared the importance of "Thinking Like a Scientist" with Whitney Point's then graduating seniors. He emphasized that most problems in the world can be solved by applying the scientific process. He maintains the world would be a better place if more people thought scientifically because science is an empowering and optimistic approach to the world. It turns, "I don't know," into "I don't know...yet." He is currently working on his third book entitled How to Think Like a Scientist, to further explain this tenet. -
BEC) in Alkali Atoms Masatsugu Sei Suzuki Department of Physics, SUNY at Bimghamton (Date: January 24, 2012)
Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in alkali atoms Masatsugu Sei Suzuki Department of Physics, SUNY at Bimghamton (Date: January 24, 2012) In 1925 Einstein predicted that at low temperatures particles in a gas could all reside in the same quantum state. This peculiar gaseous state, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), was produced in the laboratory for the first time in 1995, using the powerful laser-cooling methods developed in recent years. These condensates exhibit quantum phenomena on a large scale, and investigating them has become one of the most active areas of research in contemporary physics. _________________________________________________________________________ The first gaseous BEC was generated by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST-JILA lab, using a gas of Rb atoms cooled to 170 nK. For their achievements Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics. In November 2010 the first photon BEC was observed. _________________________________________________________________________ Carl Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon in the United States and graduated from Corvallis High School. Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1977; he was also awarded a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from the University of Chicago in 1997. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1998. In 2001, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Eric Allin Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle for fundamental studies of the Bose-Einstein condensate. In 2004, he was named United States Professor of the Year among all doctoral and research universities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wieman Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. -
November 2019
A selection of some recent arrivals November 2019 Rare and important books & manuscripts in science and medicine, by Christian Westergaard. Flæsketorvet 68 – 1711 København V – Denmark Cell: (+45)27628014 www.sophiararebooks.com AMPÈRE, André-Marie. THE FOUNDATION OF ELECTRO- DYNAMICS, INSCRIBED BY AMPÈRE AMPÈRE, Andre-Marie. Mémoires sur l’action mutuelle de deux courans électri- ques, sur celle qui existe entre un courant électrique et un aimant ou le globe terres- tre, et celle de deux aimans l’un sur l’autre. [Paris: Feugeray, 1821]. $22,500 8vo (219 x 133mm), pp. [3], 4-112 with five folding engraved plates (a few faint scattered spots). Original pink wrappers, uncut (lacking backstrip, one cord partly broken with a few leaves just holding, slightly darkened, chip to corner of upper cov- er); modern cloth box. An untouched copy in its original state. First edition, probable first issue, extremely rare and inscribed by Ampère, of this continually evolving collection of important memoirs on electrodynamics by Ampère and others. “Ampère had originally intended the collection to contain all the articles published on his theory of electrodynamics since 1820, but as he pre- pared copy new articles on the subject continued to appear, so that the fascicles, which apparently began publication in 1821, were in a constant state of revision, with at least five versions of the collection appearing between 1821 and 1823 un- der different titles” (Norman). The collection begins with ‘Mémoires sur l’action mutuelle de deux courans électriques’, Ampère’s “first great memoir on electrody- namics” (DSB), representing his first response to the demonstration on 21 April 1820 by the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) that electric currents create magnetic fields; this had been reported by François Arago (1786- 1853) to an astonished Académie des Sciences on 4 September. -
Characterization of the Nonlinear Light Emission by the Liquid Scintillator Used in the Daya Bay Experiment
Diplomarbeit Characterization of the Nonlinear Light Emission by the Liquid Scintillator Used in the Daya Bay Experiment Ausgeführt an der Technischen Universität Wien unter Anleitung von Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Gerald Badurek in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory unter Anleitung von Prof. Herbert Steiner und Dr. Daniel Dwyer durch Christian Dorfer Patergassen 63 9564 Reichenau Ort, Datum Unterschrift Abstract This thesis has been prepared within the Daya Bay group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. It describes the measurement of the nonlinearity in light emission by a linear alkylbenze-based liquid scintillator in response to electrons with kinetic energies from ∼0.2 to ∼1.0 MeV. The electrons were generated inside the liquid scintillator volume via Compton scattering of 1.332 MeV gamma rays emitted by a 2.59 MBq 60Co radioactive source. A Compton spectrometer was designed and custom-built to scan over the full range of electron energies. Geant4-based simulations were used to optimize the spectrometer design and estimate systematic effects from energy loss and multiple scattering. The ratio of light emitted relative to the electron’s kinetic energy was found to be (17.59±1.24) % lower at 0.2 MeV compared to 1.0 MeV, demonstrating significant nonlinearity. This precision determination of scintillator nonlinearity will facilitate the improved measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation by the Daya Bay experiment. Kurzfassung Diese Forschung für diese Arbeit wurde in der Daya Bay Gruppe des Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Kalifornien durchgeführt. Die Arbeit beschreibt die Messung der nichtlinearen Lichtemission von auf flüssigem Alkylbenzol-basierten Szintillator bei Anregung durch energetis- che Elektronen zwischen ∼0.2 und ∼1 MeV. -
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Graduation UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING M AY 1,2021 print Congratulations TO THE CLASS OF 2021 Table of Contents Dean Letter 2 Student Speaker 3 Degree Candidate Lists and Honors 4 May 2021 Degree Candidates 5 August 2021 Degree Candidates 26 December 2020 Degree Candidates 28 College Administration 39 Graduation Traditions 42 1 Salute to the Graduates To the Graduates of the Class of 2021: Congratulations! You did it. After years of study, volumes of projects and papers, dozens of tests and a once-in-a-century global pandemic, you have attained the honor of graduate of the University of Michigan College of Engineering. For some of you, this day was long anticipated. For others, challenges loomed at every turn. In any case, you would not be here had you not put in the work. You earned it. My sincere hope is that each of you will proudly embrace the resilience you have demonstrated. Think about how the world has changed in a year. One profound shift forced your greater awareness of the impact of separation and the transience of life. Recall your initial thoughts and your subsequent actions. Whatever it took, you endured, learned about yourself and adapted to your circumstances. You made it to graduation during one of the most challenging academic years in recent history. While pursuing your aim, in this implausible reality, you still found many ways to help others. You spoke out against systemic racism, sexism and other “isms” that deny our shared humanity. Young aspiring engineers felt inspired by your encouragement. Organizations discovered new possibilities through your insights. -
Highlights of Modern Physics and Astrophysics
Highlights of Modern Physics and Astrophysics How to find the “Top Ten” in Physics & Astrophysics? - List of Nobel Laureates in Physics - Other prizes? Templeton prize, … - Top Citation Rankings of Publication Search Engines - Science News … - ... Nobel Laureates in Physics Year Names Achievement 2020 Sir Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy" 2019 James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" 2018 Arthur Ashkin "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland biological systems" "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses" Nobel Laureates in Physics Year Names Achievement 2017 Rainer Weiss "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the Kip Thorne, Barry Barish observation of gravitational waves" 2016 David J. Thouless, "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions F. Duncan M. Haldane, and topological phases of matter" John M. Kosterlitz 2015 Takaaki Kajita, "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that Arthur B. MsDonald neutrinos have mass" 2014 Isamu Akasaki, "for the invention of -
Pinzas ´Opticas Y Pulsos ´Opticos
CARTA AL EDITOR PINZAS OPTICAS´ Y PULSOS OPTICOS´ ULTRACORTOS: UN NOBEL BIEN MERECIDO OPTICAL CLIPS AND OPTICAL ULTRA SHORT PULSES: A WELL DESERVED NOBEL (Diciembre de 2018) Este a~no,como varias veces en los ´ultimos20 a~nos(1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, por citar algunos1), el Premio Nobel de F´ısicafue concedido a investigadores cuyo trabajo ha estado directa o indirectamente relacionado con la ´optica.El 2 de octubre, la Academia Sueca anunci´oque se otorg´o\por inventos pioneros en el campo de la f´ısical´aser".La mitad a Arthur Ashkin \por las pinzas ´opticasy su aplicaci´ona los sistemas biol´ogicos"y la otra mitad conjuntamente a G´erardMourou y Donna Strickland \por su m´etodo de generar pulsos ´opticosultra cortos de alta intensidad". Pero >qu´eson las pinzas ´opticasy que son los pulsos ´opticosultracortos?, >Por qu´e trabajos en estas ´areasson merecedores de un Premio Nobel? LAS PINZAS OPTICAS´ son dispositivos que utilizando luz l´aser son capaces de desplazar, atrapar y separar, sin necesidad de contacto f´ısico, part´ıculas de tama~no muy peque~no, del orden de micr´ometro. Su funcionamiento se basa en el principio de conservaci´on del momento, uno de los principios b´asicos de la mec´anica cl´asica. Todos los jugadores de billar saben que, bajo ciertas condiciones, si una bola viaja con una determinada velocidad, y choca de frente con otra, inicialmente en reposo, esta ´ultimaadquirir´ael momento y la direcci´onde la primera. A comienzos del siglo XX, los trabajos de Einstein[1] y Planck[2] sobre el efecto fotoel´ectrico, llevaron a asociarle a la luz, un 11997- Steven Chu- Claude Cohen Tannoudjii, William Phillips 'por el desarrollo de m´etodos para enfriar y atrapar ´atomoscon luz l´aser'.2001- Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle 'por conseguir la condensaci´onde Bose-Einstein en gases diluidos de ´atomosalcalinos y por sus tempranos y fundamentales estudios de la coherencia ´optica'.2005- Roy J.