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Nature Communications  ·  17 July 2026  ·  From issue 07

A steady, shape-keeping wave can travel through a chain of controlled atoms.

Aron Kerschbaumer, Jean-Yves Desaules et al., Quasi-solitons in Rydberg atom chains, Nature Communications.

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