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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time engineered and detected the presence of high angular momentum collisions between atoms at temperatures close to absolute zero. Previous experiments with ultracold atoms featured essentially head-on collisions. The JQI experiment, by contrast, is able to create more complicated collisions between atoms using only lasers

The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded today to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.