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Bose-Einstein Condensates

A state of matter formed by ultracold bosonic atoms.

Almanac Particles That Cannot Be Told Apart
  • What did Satyendra Nath Bose mean by treating photons as genuinely indistinguishable from one another?
  • How did Einstein extend Bose's statistics from photons to atoms?
  • What is a Bose-Einstein condensate, and how does it behave differently from ordinary matter?
  • How long after the original prediction was a Bose-Einstein condensate actually created in a lab, and how was it done?
Almanac Atoms Learn to Move as One
  • What happens to a cloud of atoms when it is cooled to within nanokelvins of absolute zero?
  • How did Wolfgang Ketterle prove that his sodium condensate was genuinely a matter wave rather than just very cold atoms?
  • Why did physicists have to wait until 1995 to realize a state predicted by Einstein and Bose in 1924?