Monday, February 28, 2011

How Maxwell's Demon Cools a Gas to Microkelvin Temperatures [Animation]: Scientific American

How Maxwell's Demon Cools a Gas to Microkelvin Temperatures [Animation]: Scientific American: Raizen's idea is that a one-way gate can help cool a gas in two steps: First let the gate concentrate atoms into a smaller volume (but without raising their temperature), then allow them to expand to the original volume (which brings their temperature down).

Click on "START" to see how it works.

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