While Bose–Einstein condensates of atoms were achieved in the mid-1990s, extending the regime of quantum degeneracy to polar molecules took another two decades of dedicated work. The researchers that contributed to this achievement span many generations of students in many different laboratories around the world.
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Ni, KK. The quest for quantum degeneracy. Nat. Phys. 15, 526–527 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0531-7
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