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Measurement of the time spent by a tunnelling atom within the barrier region – Nature.com
Using the spin precession of Bose-condensed 87Rb atoms as a clock, direct measurements are made of the time required for Rb atoms to quantum tunnel through a classically impenetrable barrier.
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