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They have very different applications. Laser cooling has extremely low cooling power but can reach low temperatures. It’s good for cooling a gas of atoms or eve
by gaze 3y ago
They have very different applications. Laser cooling has extremely low cooling power but can reach low temperatures. It’s good for cooling a gas of atoms or even individually trapped atoms.
A dilution refrigerator, as are used in superconducting quantum computing and other low temperature condensed matter experiments, could cool a sandwich. We’re talking maybe a milliwatt of cooling power. Electronic cooling — I don’t know.
- westurner 3y agoDilution refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator Timeline of low-temperature technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_low-temperature_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_low-temperature_te...
- mkmk3 3y agoThanks, I've been meaning to delve deeper into this topic for a while now and that timeline is gold