{"id":56336,"date":"2023-05-31T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=56336"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:41:38","slug":"pinoy-scientist-heads-intl-study-on-dark-quantum-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/05\/31\/pinoy-scientist-heads-intl-study-on-dark-quantum-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy scientist heads int\u2019l study on dark quantum matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Filipino physicist Dr. Jayson Cosme from the University of the Philippines &#8211; Diliman College of Science National Institute of Physics (UPD-CS NIP) recently led a team of six German researchers in pioneering a way to make a special kind of \u201cdark\u201d matter that can\u2019t be observed using standard laboratory methods. His team\u2019s findings were published in the prestigious international journal, <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists are able to use laser beams to slow down the movement of the atoms in a material, causing its temperature to drop. When the temperature goes down almost to absolute zero, the individual atoms can condense together into a new state of matter with quantum properties that behaves almost like a single giant atom. Renowned physicists Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose were the first to predict its existence, hence it was named after them and is now called a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BECs can be observed and studied using special cameras. However, Dr. Cosme\u2019s team was able to use lasers to further manipulate them so that they can\u2019t be observed using these standard methods. \u201cBy shaking BECs in the right way, we can cause them to become quantum objects that don\u2019t absorb, reflect, nor emit light\u2014hence, \u2018dark,\u2019\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/1?ui=2&amp;ik=3c53ca4039&amp;attid=0.0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1767317568584563848&amp;th=1886c5f708ca3c88&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_U88RgNH_fmNUxS9F19gQoTqNFrpbORN0DfwNlUeBM3796XRStpH61S8-7vRFgEbcWJX9yHqUkwdFlpBaDwsB3DWuVMfpVAd6icP0uLt-P1d9PTYNMLh9bdN0&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_lia5dz6n2\" alt=\"zeitkristall-im-resonator-highres.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flame-like glow in this experimental setup is from Rubidium-87 atoms that are about to form a Bose-Einstein condensate. (Photo credit: Dr. Andreas Hemmerich)<br>Dr. Cosme expressed pride and gratitude at being given the opportunity to helm an international team composed of some of the foremost researchers in his field. \u201cI\u2019m very honored and thankful to have been the last author on this paper, as my colleagues are all from Germany,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis has been a very deep cooperation between myself and the group of Prof. Andreas Hemmerich, who studied under Nobel Laureate Theodor W. Haensch; as well as Prof. Ludwig Mathey\u2019s group, which includes my close collaborator, first author Jim Skulte,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino physicist Dr. Jayson Cosme from the University of the Philippines &#8211; Diliman College of Science National Institute of Physics (UPD-CS NIP) recently led a team of six German researchers in pioneering a way to make a special kind of \u201cdark\u201d matter that can\u2019t be observed using standard laboratory methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":56348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-56336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}