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Scientists use matter waves to reveal new collective behavior in quantum optics

View of an array of matter wave emitters held in an optical lattice tube (atomic excitation in red, emitted matter waves in blue, effective vacuum coupling in green) and directional superradiation data. Credit: Alfonso Lanuza A research team led by Dr. Dominique Schnaebel, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has discovered a new regime for cooperative radiation phenomena,…