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Cold-atom microscope shapes up

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The ultrasoft 'tip' of the cold-atom scanning probe microscope will offer new possibilities for exploring the interactions between atoms and surfaces.

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Figure 1: Cold-atom microscope and conventional AFM in comparison.

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  1. Christian L. Degen and Jonathan P. Home are in the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland,

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Degen, C., Home, J. Cold-atom microscope shapes up. Nature Nanotech 6, 399–400 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.107

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