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Publishing Editor for Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

• Image of the week: 09/03/15

  By Thomas Farrell on March 9, 2015

  

  Trapping and cooling molecules is a hot topic of research with applications in both chemistry and physics, spanning from testing fundamental theories to quantum computing, and one method for trapping atoms and molecules is via microwave cavity. This week’s Image… Read More ›

• Spotlight: attosecond physics and an attosecond lighthouse

  By Thomas Farrell on March 6, 2015

  

  Attosecond physics studies processes that occur on a time scale of around 10-18 seconds.  That’s 0.00000000000000001 seconds, which is to 1 second what a second is to the age of the universe. Pulses of light with attosecond duration could be… Read More ›