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Double slits with single atoms

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18 Feb 2020
Taken from the February 2020 issue of Physics World.

Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment is famous for demonstrating the principle of interference. Andrew Murray explains why it’s now possible to carry out an equivalent experiment using lasers that have excited individual rubidium atoms

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Andrew Murray is professor of atomic physics in the Photon Science Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK, e-mail andrew.murray@manchester.ac.uk
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