A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7269, 2009, Pages 74-77

  Bakr, Waseem S ^a   Gillen, Jonathon I ^a   Peng, Amy ^a   Fölling, Simon ^a   Greiner, Markus ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION;

ELECTRON; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAS; GEOMETRY; HOLOGRAPHY; HUBBARD REGIME OPTICAL LATTICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM GAS MICROSCOPE; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70449120935     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08482     Document Type: Article

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