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Ultracold matter

Ultracold matter

Fermionic microscope watches individual atoms in transition

09 Mar 2016 Tushna Commissariat
Fermionic microscope images of ultracold lithium atoms behaving as a metal (left), a band insulator (centre) and a Mott insulator
Clear view: ultracold lithium atoms as a band insulator. (Courtesy: Daniel Greif/Harvard University)
Researchers in the US have taken images of individual atoms in an ultracold fermionic gas as it make

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