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Mar 9, 2023

Scientists create ‘world’s smallest ball game’ with atoms

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The researchers used instruments known as optical traps to throw and catch individual atoms. Scientists have created what they describe as “the world’s smallest ball game with atoms”. Researchers in South Korea have made atoms – the smallest unit of matter – move like balls through the air using a technology known as optical traps.

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