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A new take on the slit experiment

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A double-slit experiment performed with two rubidium atoms precisely held in an optical lattice inside an optical cavity provides a new platform for exploring quantum effects.

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Figure 1: Illustration of two-atom double-slit experiments.

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Beige, A. A new take on the slit experiment. Nature Photon 10, 290–291 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.71

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