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Ultracold atoms

The quantum distillery

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Selective evaporation of one component from a mixture is a common process, but in the case of ultracold atomic gases, distillation is more complex.

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  1. Trey Porto is at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA,

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