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ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences

Caption

Artistic representation of chiral interactions in an ultracold cloud of atoms dressed with light, which make it behave differently from its mirror image and are the smoking gun of the realization of a topological gauge theory.

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Image credit: ICFO/Scixel

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