Bose-Einstein condensate

A Bose-Einstein condensate is a gaseous superfluid phase formed by atoms cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero. The first such condensate was produced by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman in 1995 at the University of Colorado at Boulder, using a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvins (nK). Under such conditions, a large fraction of the atoms collapse into the lowest quantum state, producing a superfluid.

See also

• Electromagnetically induced transparency
• Slow glass
• Gravastar
• Superfluid
• Supersolid
• Super-heavy atom
• Tonks-Girardeau gas
• Gas in a box
• Bose gas
• Fermionic condensate