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Fermions under the microscope

The observation of individual atoms with single-lattice-site resolution has proved to be an enormously powerful detection method for optical lattice-based quantum simulators. Such a technique has now been demonstrated with fermionic atoms.

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Figure 1: Single-site-resolved optical detection of fermions trapped in an optical lattice.

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Groß, C. Fermions under the microscope. Nature Photon 9, 482–483 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.133

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