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MIT physicists snap the first images of "free-range" atoms
- dogtimeimmortal 1y ago> The researchers directly observed atoms known as “bosons,” which bunched up in a quantum phenomenon to form a wave. They also captured atoms known as “fermions”... Is this a typo? Aren't those subatomic particles? This is repeated throughout the article. ...the linked paper[1] is titled: Measuring Pair Correlations in Bose and Fermi Gases via Atom-Resolved Microscopy Maybe i am missing something? i can only read the abstract. [1] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.183402 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...