Tag: Kang-Kuen Ni

  • Nation & World

    Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time

    Professor Kang-Kuen Ni and her team have collected real experimental data from an unexplored quantum frontier, providing strong evidence of what the theoretical model got right (and wrong) and a roadmap for further exploration into the shadowy next layers of quantum space.

    5 minutes
    Mapping the quantum realm.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard partners with national labs on quantum computing

    The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers across the country. Harvard researchers will play important roles in three of the centers.

    7 minutes
    A close-up view of a quantum compute
  • Nation & World

    Mystery of the missing molecules

    When scientists moved from manipulating atoms to messing with molecules, molecules started to disappear from view. Professor Kang-Kuen Ni has figured out why.

    5 minutes
    Professor Kang-Kuen Ni
  • Nation & World

    Catching lightning in a bottle

    Harvard researchers have performed the coldest reaction in the known universe by capturing a chemical reaction in its most critical and elusive act.

    4 minutes
    Scientist with special equipment.
  • Nation & World

    Tiny tweezers

    Using precisely focused lasers that act as “optical tweezers,” Harvard scientists have been able to capture and control individual ultracold molecules – the eventual building-blocks of a quantum computer – and study the collisions between them in more detail than ever before.

    5 minutes
    optical tweezers in use
  • Nation & World

    Two atoms combined in dipolar molecule

    Harvard Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kang-Kuen Ni and colleagues have combined two atoms for the first time into what researchers call a dipolar molecule.

    3 minutes