Quantum engineering: an atom-sorting machine

Laser cooling and trapping techniques allow us to control and manipulate neutral atoms. Here we rearrange, with submicrometre precision, the positions and ordering of laser-trapped atoms within strings by manipulating individual atoms with optical tweezers. Strings of equidistant atoms created in this way could serve as a scalable memory for quantum information.     

五代军事人才摇篮--沙陀骑兵军

沙陀骑兵是唐末五代拥有赫赫威名、战功卓著的骑兵部队。他们败朱温、克幽燕、破契丹,最终沙陀族得以问鼎中原,建立了后唐、后晋、后汉三个北方局部统一政权。他们之所以名垂青史,不仅因其战斗力强悍,还因为这支军队长期作为中央禁军,服役数代。后唐、后晋、后汉的禁军统帅、节度使、刺史近乎皆出于此,直至北宋初年仍有沙陀骑将拼杀于沙场之上,可谓五代军事人才的摇篮。