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Quantum hydrodynamics

A local probe for many-body physics

A quantum engineering technique powered by disorder offers access to local correlation functions down to single-site resolution in nuclear spin ensembles, allowing the study of both spin and energy hydrodynamics.

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Fig. 1: Disorder-based local addressing of translationally invariant systems.

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Chu, Y., Cai, J. A local probe for many-body physics. Nat. Phys. 19, 933–934 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02051-1

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