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Optical lattices have rapidly become a favoured tool of atomic and condensed-matter physicists. These crystals made of light can be used to trap atoms at very low temperatures, creating a workshop in which to pore over and tinker with fundamental properties of matter.
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Markus Greiner and Simon Fölling are in the Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. greiner@physics.harvard.edu foelling@physics.harvard.edu,
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Greiner, M., Fölling, S. Optical lattices.Nature453, 736–738 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453736a
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