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Science 26 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5504, pp. 566 - 567
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5504.566B
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QUANTUM OPTICS:
Atomic Squeeze Play Stops Light Cold

David Voss

In papers in Physical Review Letters and Nature, scientists report that they have used atomic gases to grab light pulses, squeeze them into a smaller space, imprint them on atoms, and read them out again after a delay. The researchers speculate that such sleight-of-light tricks might one day be useful in the still theoretical field of quantum information processing.

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