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Researchers build new fermion microscope

posted May 13, 2015 at 2:52 pm

Graduate student Lawrence Cheuk adjusts the optics setup for laser cooling of sodium atoms. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

Instrument freezes and images 1,000 individual fermionic atoms at once. « more »

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Researchers build new fermion microscope (MIT News)

Quantum-Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms (Phys. Rev. Lett.)

Professor Martin Zwierlein

Ultracold Quantum Gases Group

MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms