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Published online 30 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020729-1
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Quantum net for atom angling
Physicists should be able to land exact numbers of atoms from a quantum cloud.
Scientists should be able to fish out an exact number of atoms from puddles of many thousands using a quantum net, new calculations suggest1.
The size of the catch, say Roberto Diener and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin, will depend on how fast they yank the net out of the atom pool.
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