The combination of optical tweezer arrays with high-finesse cavities opens the door to the study of mesoscopic finite-size effects in the critical dynamics and optomechanical response of atomic ensembles.
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Vukics, A., Domokos, P. Atoms revolt against tweezer-imposed order. Nat. Phys. 21, 1038–1039 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02946-1
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