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  • Ultracold Atoms Form Long-Lasting Waves

    05/29/2002 3:14:37 PM PDT · by vannrox · 4 replies · 418+ views
    Scientific American ^ | FR Post 5-29-02 | Editorial Staff--Kate Wong
    Ultracold Atoms Form Long-Lasting Waves At sufficiently cold temperatures, the atoms in a gas can form what is known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), losing their individual identities and merging into a single quantum state. The phenomenon has fascinated physicists ever since gaseous BECs were created in the laboratory in 1995 (although the possiblity was first postulated some 70 years earlier), and a flurry of recent research has uncovered all kinds of remarkable condensate properties. Now researchers writing in the journal Nature have yet another discovery to add to that list. According to the report, BEC atoms trapped in a...