Positions of atoms at super cold temp

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I thought this was an interesting paper, good enough to share

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160915162930.htm

September 15, 2016
Source:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary:
If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today's most powerful microscopes, you will see little more than a shadowy blur. Atoms zip around at lightning speeds and are difficult to pin down at ambient temperatures. If, however, these atoms are plunged to ultracold temperatures, they slow to a crawl, and scientists can start to study how they can form exotic states of matter, such as superfluids, superconductors, and quantum magnets.
 
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The actual paper is
  1. L. W. Cheuk, M. A. Nichols, K. R. Lawrence, M. Okan, H. Zhang, E. Khatami, N. Trivedi, T. Paiva, M. Rigol, M. W. Zwierlein. Observation of spatial charge and spin correlations in the 2D Fermi-Hubbard model. Science, 2016; 353 (6305): 1260 DOI: 10.1126/science.aag3349