A Cigar-shaped Gas of Magnetic Atoms (IMAGE)

University of Innsbruck

A Cigar-shaped Gas of Magnetic Atoms

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A cigar-shaped gas of magnetic atoms can support a roton mode: a modulation in the atom spatial organization at a given wavelength, forming a saddle on the energy mountain ridge of its elementary excitations.

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IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch

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