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Ultracold matter

Ultracold matter

High-resolution imaging sheds light on supersolid formation

08 Jun 2021 Oliver Stockdale 
Sequence of seven images taken of dipolar atoms as they cool. Initially, the cloud is relatively warm and atoms in it are uniformly distributed. As it gets colder, peaks emerge as bright spots on the images.
Cool, cooler, supersolid Images of the dipolar atoms cooling down and forming the supersolid state. As the system cools, periodic density peaks emerge. (Courtesy: Maximilian Sohmen)
Supersolids – materials that exhibit both spatial ordering (seen in solids) and lossless flow (see

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Oliver Stockdale is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Oliver studies quantum physics at the Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Universität Heidelberg. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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