An elegant experiment shows that atoms subjected to a pair of laser beams can behave like electrons in a magnetic field, as demonstrated by the appearance of quantized vortices in a neutral superfluid.
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Zwierlein, M. Neutral atoms put in charge. Nature 462, 584–585 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462584a
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