How to Use ytterbium in a Sentence

ytterbium

noun

• In these clocks, a laser is shined through a cloud of atoms — usually of strontium or ytterbium.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• To solve this problem, a group of researchers used a nanoparticle that was doped with ytterbium (a rare-earth metal).
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2018
• The IonQ processor uses powerful lasers to trap ions from a rare earth metal, ytterbium, and uses these to form its qubits.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Here, the quantum state is not generally stored in a single ytterbium ion.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
• They were first detected in 2016 in experiments with ions of the rare-earth metal ytterbium at the University of Maryland.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 15 July 2022
• Last year, researchers figured out how to create time crystals in a lab for the first time, using a complicated method involving a precision laser and a collection of ytterbium atoms.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2018
• To create the time crystals, researchers at University of Maryland hooked together 10 ytterbium atoms and hit them with two lasers multiple times to keep them out of equilibrium.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2017
• Those nanoparticles contain two rare-earth elements, erbium and ytterbium, which help convert the infrared light into a higher energy green light that mammal eyes can detect.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• Monroe’s firm uses another long-standing technology: applying magnetic fields to trap ions of ytterbium whose quantum state is read out using lasers.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019
• The practical choice of materials for solar cells are lanthanides like ytterbium or erbium, which have multiple energy levels for electrons to occupy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
• With names like europium, scandium and ytterbium, the bulk of rare earth minerals are extracted from mines in China, where lower wages and lax environmental standards make production cheaper and easier.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• Nitrogen is put in diamond, phosphorous in silicon, and ytterbium in yttrium-aluminum-garnet crystals.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024