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Cooking with quantum gas

An ultra-cold atomic gas is used to image a phase transition in an iron pnictide with micrometre resolution.

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Fig. 1: Nematic electrons are always tied to a lattice and vice versa.

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Analytis, J. Cooking with quantum gas. Nat. Phys. 16, 506–507 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0861-5

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