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When ultracold magnets swirl

The observation of quantized vortices in a rotating gas of magnetic atoms confirms a long-standing prediction and has far-reaching implications for the study of phenomena related to superfluidity.

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Fig. 1: Generation of vortices in dipolar quantum gases.

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Hadzibabic, Z. When ultracold magnets swirl. Nat. Phys. 18, 1393–1394 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01811-9

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