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You use lasers to optically trap and cool the atoms, you can get them insanely cold very reliably with methods like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical
by packetlost 4y ago
You use lasers to optically trap and cool the atoms, you can get them insanely cold very reliably with methods like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_molasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_molasses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_gradient_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarization_gradient_cooling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_cooling
The components in a system like this are probably operating at room temperature.