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Flattened clouds of ultracold atoms display a topological phase transition

Charles Day

Published Aug 1, 2006• 1 citation
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Abstract

When pairs of atom clouds merge and interfere, the resulting fringes embody and reveal the atoms’ collective coherence.
DOI
10.1063/1.2349715

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