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Chaos in the cold

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A marriage between theory and experiment has shown that ultracold erbium atoms trapped with laser light and subjected to a magnetic field undergo collisions that are characterized by quantum chaos. See Letter p.475

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Figure 1: A barcode of resonances.

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  1. Paul S. Julienne is at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.,

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Julienne, P. Chaos in the cold. Nature 507, 440–441 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13211

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