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Physical Measurement Laboratory /Quantum Measurement Division

Laser Cooling and Trapping Group

We use ultracold gases and other atomic systems to study quantum phenomena including many-body physics, superfluidity, and quantum information.

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Mystery of the Dark Solitons

When your heart beats, blood courses through your arteries in waves of pressure. These pressure waves manifest as your

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Imaging topology of Hofstadter ribbons

Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Dina Genkina, Alina M. Pineiro Escalera, Hsin-I Lu, Lauren Aycock
Physical systems with non-trivial topological order find direct applications in metrology[1] and promise future applications in quantum computing[2,3]. The

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