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Reflection and refraction at a time boundary

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Ultracold atoms provide a platform for realizing the temporal analogue of Snell’s law.

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Fig. 1: Simulated time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms from a time boundary.

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  2. Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland

    Krzysztof Sacha

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Hannaford, P., Sacha, K. Reflection and refraction at a time boundary. Nat. Photon. 18, 7–8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01343-5

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