Blueprint For a Quantum Electric Motor 97
TechReviewAl writes "Alexey Ponomarev from the University of Augsburg in Germany and colleagues have revealed the blueprints for an electric motor built with just two atoms. The motor would have one neutral atom and one charged atom trapped in a ring-shaped optical lattice. The atoms jump from one site in the lattice to the next as they travel around the ring and placing this ring in an alternating magnetic field creates the conditions necessary to keep the charged atom moving round the the ring. A team from the University of Glasgow in the UK in fact built one of these quantum motors back in 2007, which they called an optical ferris wheel for ultracold atoms. 'The next step, say Ponomarev and co, is to attach the motor to a nanoscopic resonator, such as a spring board or nanomushroom, and make it vibrate. If you can do that, they say, you'd be powering a classical object using a quantum motor.'"
Re:So.. what is the efficiency of this motor? (Score:5, Funny)
Suck it cops! (Score:5, Funny)
I'll show myself out....
Re:So.. what is the efficiency of this motor? (Score:5, Funny)
only in Boston.
Re:Suck it cops! (Score:5, Funny)
And what happens when you get into an accident? You'll be both dead and alive until someone opens the car door! (Is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?)
wow (Score:2, Funny)
Soon we will be ablr to have Quantum Hard drives
Re:So.. what is the efficiency of this motor? (Score:1, Funny)