Figure 2 | Schematic of experimental implementation. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Figure 2 | Schematic of experimental implementation.

Caption

Atoms in thermal motion travel through real-space Brillouin zones periodically, following the same dynamics of electrons subjected to static electric fields. We measure the geometric phases from the energy spectra of atoms.

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by Ruosong Mao, Xingqi Xu, Jiefei Wang, Chenran Xu, Gewei Qian, Han Cai, Shi-Yao Zhu & Da-Wei Wang

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