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Large quasiparticles known as Rydberg excitons have been detected in a natural crystal of copper oxide. The result may find use in applications such as single-photon logic devices. See Letter p.343

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Figure 1: The spectral signatures of excitons.

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  1. Sven Höfling is in the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, UK.,

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  2. Alexey Kavokin is at the Saint Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia, and at the Physics and Astronomy School, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.,

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Höfling, S., Kavokin, A. A historic experiment redesigned. Nature 514, 313–314 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514313a

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