An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Niels Kjærgaard from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, has used steerable ‘optical tweezers’ to split ultracold clouds of potassium-40 (40K) atoms and smash them together to directly observe a key principle of quantum mechanics – the Pauli exclusion principle. …
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