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Nature Physics 2, 309 - 310 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys301

Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Information theory and computation

Atomic and molecular physics: Polar molecules in topological order

Maciej Lewenstein1

  1. Maciej Lewenstein is at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and the Institut de Ciéncies Fotòniques (ICFO), 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain. e-mail: maciej.lewwnstein@icfo.es


Quantum states of matter with topological order are of great fundamental — and potential practical — interest. Polar molecules stored in optical lattices could offer a platform for realizing such 'exotic' states.

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