millikelvin
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[edit]millikelvin (plural millikelvins)
- One thousandth of a kelvin
- 1997 June 20, Richard Stone, “Space Research Centers Search for New Frontier”, in Science[1], volume 276, number 5320, :
- ILT's device cools samples to several millikelvins, cold enough to freeze helium.
- 1998 July 24, Takeshi Inoshita, “CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots”, in Science[2], volume 281, number 5376, , pages 526–527:
- This zero-bias maximum disappears as temperature is raised above several hundred millikelvin, in agreement with theory ( 8 ): Because V sd is equal to the separation between the Fermi levels of the two leads, finite V sd splits the Kondo resonance into two peaks.
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[edit]millikelvin (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the temperature range at which temperatures are expressed in millikelvins
- 1998 January 30, John Schiffer, “PHYSICS: Sparse Crystals”, in Science[3], volume 279, number 5351, , pages 675–676:
- The temperatures required for producing a crystalline solid out of such a "one-component plasma" (3) are in the millikelvin range.
- 2001 January 12, A. Yu. Kasumov et al., “Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in DNA”, in Science[4], volume 291, number 5502, , pages 280–282:
- These results imply that DNA molecules can be conducting down to millikelvin temperature and that phase coherence is maintained over several hundred nanometers.