Stunning image shows atoms transforming into quantum waves

> [W]e use quantum gas microscopy to image the in-situ spatial distribution of deterministically prepared single-atom wave packets as they expand in a plane. We achieve this by controllably projecting the expanding wavefunction onto the sites of a deep optical lattice and subsequently performing single-atom imaging. The protocol established here for imaging extended wave packets via quantum gas microscopy is readily applicable to the wavefunction of interacting many-body systems in continuous space, promising a direct access to their microscopic properties, including spatial correlation functions up to high order and large distances.

Still goes mostly over my head but it's a lot clearer than TFA imho. Also, I tried looking up Quantum Gas Microscopy on Wikipedia and was disappointed in the results. Google Scholar yields more articles for those interested [2].

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05699

2. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=quantum+gas+microscope