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Ultracold matter

Disorderly arrest

An experimental demonstration that the expansion of ultracold atoms in three dimensions can be frozen by disorder provides fertile ground for studies of metal–insulator transitions in disordered systems — including those with interacting particles.

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Kaiser, R. Disorderly arrest. Nature Phys 8, 363–364 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2274

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