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Atom imaged in ultracold gas

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Photonics.com: A high-resolution microscope has been developed to image individual atoms in an ultracold quantum gas, marking the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of light, called a Bose Hubbard optical lattice. Physicists at Harvard University created the microscope as part of efforts to use ultracold quantum gases to understand and develop novel quantum materials.

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