⚛️ New opportunities for basic research: Helium nanodroplets make it possible to simulate the prevailing conditions in outer space. Physicists from Innsbruck and Greifswald have now succeeded in storing these droplets in an ion trap for up to one minute. This extends the experimental time window for these ultra-cold “mini-laboratories” by a factor of 10,000.
🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2025/ion-trap-enables-one-minute-in-the-nanocosmos/
📖 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/yr98-h791
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Ion trap enables one minute in the nanocosmos
At the Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Innsbruck, a research team has succeeded for the first time in storing electrically charged helium nanodroplets in an ion trap for up to one minute. This extends the time window for experiments with these extremely cold "mini-laboratories" by a factor of 10,000 compared to previous methods - and opens up new possibilities for basic research in physics and chemistry.
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