Illustration (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Illustration

Caption

Illustration of a system that produces the first optical lattice with sound. Light is pumped in through three sources – including via a digital mirror device (DMD) – and produces a supersolid of atoms (in orange) that can vibrate.

Credit

Lev Lab

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