condensates

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold “boson” atoms — the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates — into a “supersolid,” an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid.

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Previously produced Bose-Einstein condensates, which form only at temperatures near absolute zero, include a superfluid of liquid helium that flows with no friction and condensates of dilute gases.

Quantum Study Yields Unusual Results | Impact Lab 2006

Could Bose Einstein condensates be used as calculators?

February 8th, 2006 2006

Pattern of interference between two overlapping Bose-Einstein condensates of sodium atoms.

The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics - Information for the Public 2001

This method frequently assumes that the reader knows a fair amount of conventional science, and that he can pick up on things like references to the Lorentz contraction effect, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum ‘entanglement’, or other such items which are pretty well known to science students and rocket scientists, but frequently are little known outside those circles (and yes, there are some rocket scientists who read this stuff – which just means that what science you do put in had better be accurate).

2007 April « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2007

This method frequently assumes that the reader knows a fair amount of conventional science, and that he can pick up on things like references to the Lorentz contraction effect, Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum ‘entanglement’, or other such items which are pretty well known to science students and rocket scientists, but frequently are little known outside those circles (and yes, there are some rocket scientists who read this stuff – which just means that what science you do put in had better be accurate).

The SF Info-Dump « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2007

Bose-Einstein condensates typically form when falling temperatures induce the atoms of a gas or other particles to exhibit their wavelike quantum nature and grow larger, as dictated by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Quantum Study Yields Unusual Results | Impact Lab 2006

Then came black holes, string theory, wormholes, tangled quantum states, Bose-Einstein condensates, Moore’s Law, nanotechnology, and a host of other concepts and inventions.

SF That’s Probably Not for the Masses « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2006

Then came black holes, string theory, wormholes, tangled quantum states, Bose-Einstein condensates, Moore’s Law, nanotechnology, and a host of other concepts and inventions.

2006 November « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2006

Superconductors, which are materials that permit electric current to flow without resistance at ultracold temperatures, exhibit many of the properties of Bose-Einstein condensates, but physicists disagree on whether those materials precisely fit the condensate’s definition.

Quantum Study Yields Unusual Results | Impact Lab 2006