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Non-perturbing spectroscopy allows the observation of fragile fractional quantum Hall states and broken symmetries in graphene with atomic precision.

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Fig. 1: Fractional quantum Hall states perturbed by a scanning tunnelling microscope probe.

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Shih, EM., Slot, M.R. A good tip. Nat. Phys. 19, 1389–1390 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02134-z

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