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Nature Physics 4, 906 - 908 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1143

Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Bose–Einstein condensates: A peek and a poke

Dieter Jaksch1

  1. Dieter Jaksch is in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK, and at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, 117543, Singapore.
    e-mail: dieter.jaksch@physics.ox.ac.uk


An adapted scanning electron microscope allows the non-destructive measurement and manipulation of Bose–Einstein condensates. The single-atom sensitivity that this technique promises could soon become indispensable in the study of quantum degenerate atomic gases.

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