Creating/ stabilizing bright matter-wave solitons—concentrated clusters of atoms that do not spread out—within repeating laser light lattice

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-breakthrough-laser-technique-quantum-stable.html

"atoms wave-like at quantum level dispersing over time, overcome stabilizing (for nearly half second) solitons within lattice using attractive forces using cesium atoms cooled to near absolute zero (Bose-Einstein condensate)... magnetic fields tune attraction between atoms: too weak and atoms disperse, too strong and cluster collapses... 2 types of stable atoms' structure: concentrated at single point on grid/ distributed across multiple sites while still behaving as a unified soliton... quantum sensing/ transport"

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