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The gravitational version of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, where particles are affected by the gravitational potential in the absence of a force, could be demonstrated in a lab-scale experiment using ultracold atoms.

Theorists can now calculate the speed with which correlations travel in a chain of interacting atoms.

Researchers have confined and manipulated electron spin waves in hydrogen gas.

Ultracold atoms could be used to simulate physical phenomena beyond three spatial dimensions.

A protocol is proposed to map the local Berry curvature over the Brillouin zone of cold atoms in an optical lattice.

Experimenters slow molecules by shining lasers at them.

Interacting atoms mimic the behavior of identical fermions.

An advance in laser cooling fermionic atoms in an optical trap brings experimentalists closer to reaching a quantum magnetic phase of atoms.

Theoretical models edge closer to explaining how photoionization is affected by many-body interactions.

Experiments map the structure and decay of the elusive H2- molecular ion.

Researchers show that intershell recombination processes involving three and four electrons sometimes dominate over those involving only two.

Researchers propose using ultracold polar molecules to simulate the t-J model, the cornerstone of many theoretical efforts to understand high-temperature superconductivity.

A gas of excited-state atoms could perform as a single-photon detector.

According to calculations, unexpected physics emerges when a Bose-Einstein condensate is confined to a hexagonal optical lattice.

Theoretical analysis shows how exotic superfluidity might be observed in ultracold molecules.

Precision measurements of the electron magnetic moment in hydrogenlike silicon provide a stringent test of bound-state quantum electrodynamics.

Experiments show that an ultracold gas will condense to a coherent state at a higher temperature when its atoms repel each other.

Dense clouds of cold atoms have been produced in thin optical fibers.

Three-body bound states, known to form among spherically symmetric atoms, should also exist for dipole molecules.

Optical clocks based on nuclear energy levels may offer unprecedented precision and a chance to find out whether fundamental constants change over time.