Atom Ducks Collision (IMAGE)

University of Toronto

Atom Ducks Collision

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An artist’s impression of the resistivity that results from cold atomic collisions. Researchers investigating interaction-induced resistivity of ultracold atoms in a checkerboard-like landscape observe a quantum enhancement of their likelihood of colliding, akin to how ducks that move in bubbles would collide as if they were the size of the bubbles, rather than their actual size.

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Haiwei Hou

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