Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atoms (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atoms

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A powerful new JILA technique reveals hidden properties of ultracold atoms in a superfluid, in which atoms form pairs like electrons in a superconductor. The JILA group focuses on the "crossover" stage (middle graphic) between the small pairs of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (left) and the extremely large pairs of a low-temperature superconductor (right).

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C. Regal/JILA

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