Bose-Einstein condensate
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A state of matter that forms at low temperatures or high densities in which the wave functions of the bosons that make up the matter overlap. The bosons all fall into the same ground level quantum state. Bose-Einstein condensates were predicted by Einstein in 1925 but not observed experimentally until 1995.
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Also called superatom
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See also state of matter
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Rather than using superconductors, they worked with an ultracold gas of atoms known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 23, 2025
The research team at TU Wien was able to show: neither an extremely abrupt nor an extremely slow splitting of the Bose-Einstein condensate is optimal.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
At that temperature, the helium-3 transformed into a Bose-Einstein condensate, where all the atoms share a common quantum state and work in concert with each other.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022
Dr. Jin performed many of the early experiments characterizing the gas, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
Called a Bose-Einstein condensate, it is a kind of "superatom," in which individual atoms lose their separate identities and merge into a single entity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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