Laser Cooling and Trapping Creates Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Laser Cooling and Trapping Creates Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter

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Purdue University researchers used lasers to trap and cool atoms down to nearly absolute zero, at which point they become a quantum fluid known as Bose-Einstein condensate, and collided condensates with opposite spins.

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Purdue Quantum Center

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