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"On our website, we have a picture of nine ions
trapped in a string," Nadlinger said. "In terms of
the science, that's actually more interesting
than having a single bright
ht pixel surrounded by
the ion trap. But to illustrate the concept, this
might be more appealing."
Nadlinger does not believe he is the first
researcher to take such a photo, but he may
well be the most successful at capturing the
public's attention with one.
"A group led by Hans Dehmelt, a pioneer of ion
trapping and a Nobel laureate [in 1989], once
took a picture of a single barium atom in their
lab," Nadlinger said. "It was a single bright
speck on a dark background, apart from some
laser scatter. There's this story that they
submitted this image to some conference
proceedings — and the image editor just
stamped out the ion because he thought it was
a speck of dust."
VIDEO
A single strontium atom floats
between two electrodes
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