{"id":579,"date":"2023-02-24T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T03:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/?p=579"},"modified":"2023-02-24T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:00:20","slug":"non-abelian-zitterbewegung-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Non-Abelian Zitterbewegung effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title-1024x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title-496x193.jpg 496w, https:\/\/ultracold.quantumlah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PRL_Title.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our work on atomic wave-packet dynamics was published and highlighted in Physical Review Letters (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.129.130402\" target=\"_blank\">doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.129.130402<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our work on atomic wave-packet dynamics was published and highlighted in Physical Review Letters (doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.129.130402).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Non-Abelian Zitterbewegung effect - Ultracold Gases &amp; 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