Some news about engineering atomic interactions, which ties in with my contention that nuclear and electron interactions can be achieved at much lower energies if one knows what frequencies and harmonic relationships are involved:
Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-high-angular-momentum-long-lived-atomic. html "Our technique is a fundamentally new method for engineering interactions, and we expect this work will stimulate new directions of research and be of broad interest within the physics community, experimental and theoretical," said Spielman. "We are modifying the very character of the interactions, and not just the strength, by light alone." NOTE the statement, We are modifying the very character of the interactions To continue the excerpt: The JQI team, including Nobel Laureate William Phillips, is truly international, with scientists originating in the United Kingdom (lead author Ross Williams), Canada (Lindsay LeBlanc), Mexico (Karina Jiménez-García), and the US (Matthew Beeler, Abigail Perry, William Phillips and Ian Spielman). The researchers now will switch from observing bosonic atoms (with a total spin value of 1) to fermion atoms (those with a half-integral spin). Combining the boson techniques demonstrated here with ultracold fermions offers considerable promise for creating systems which are predicted to support the mysterious Majorana fermions. Lead author and JQI postdoctoral fellow Ross Williams says that BECs aren't essential: "While it's true we collided two BECs in the current experiment, this was not necessary to demonstrate the modified interactions. In an ideal thought experiment the experiment could have been done with just two particles, repeated many times." "Synthetic partial waves in ultracold atomic collisions" by R. A. Williams, L. J. LeBlanc, K. Jiménez-García, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, W. D. Phillips, I. B. Spielman, Science Express, 8 December 2011. ==================================== -mark
