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Superfluids mixing it up

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Figure 1: Composite condensates: the distribution of a spherical two-component Bose-Einstein condensate made of 87Rb atoms (red) and 23Na atoms (white), at absolute zero.

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Esry, B., Greene, C. Superfluids mixing it up. Nature 392, 434–435 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/33009

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