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Optical lattices

More than a look

A microscope that can both resolve individual atoms in an optical lattice and control their spin states should enable the exploration of many-body physics.

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Porto, J. More than a look. Nature Phys 7, 280–281 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1964

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