[HN Gopher] Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum...
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       Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-05-02 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (charmingscience.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (charmingscience.com)
        
       | ShamelessC wrote:
       | This is confusing to me as I thought the simple act of measuring
       | the wave collapsed the wavefunction.
        
       | gryfft wrote:
       | Here's the abstract from the paper[1]:
       | 
       | > [W]e use quantum gas microscopy to image the in-situ spatial
       | distribution of deterministically prepared single-atom wave
       | packets as they expand in a plane. We achieve this by
       | controllably projecting the expanding wavefunction onto the sites
       | of a deep optical lattice and subsequently performing single-atom
       | imaging. The protocol established here for imaging extended wave
       | packets via quantum gas microscopy is readily applicable to the
       | wavefunction of interacting many-body systems in continuous
       | space, promising a direct access to their microscopic properties,
       | including spatial correlation functions up to high order and
       | large distances.
       | 
       | Still goes mostly over my head but it's a lot clearer than TFA
       | imho. Also, I tried looking up Quantum Gas Microscopy on
       | Wikipedia and was disappointed in the results. Google Scholar
       | yields more articles for those interested [2].
       | 
       | 1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05699
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       | 2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=quantum+gas+microscope
        
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