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For ultracold atoms experiencing a synthetic magnetic field in an optical lattice, it is possible to observe the translational symmetry-breaking pattern determined by the chosen gauge.

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Figure 1: A lattice in real (left) and reciprocal (right) space.

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Ozawa, T. Feel the gauge. Nature Phys 11, 801–802 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3447

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