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Rice University

RYDBERG 2

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A team of physicists at Rice University has learned to manipulate electrons in gigantic Rydberg atoms with such precision they can create “synthetic dimensions.” From left, back row: Soumya Kanungo, Sohail Dasgupta, Kaden Hazzard and Yi Lu, and front, Barry Dunning and Tom Killian.

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