Creating a quantum fluid from a gas of excited helium atoms is not easy — the atoms tend to self-destruct. But two groups in France have pulled it off.
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Hulet, R. Getting excited about helium. Nature 411, 425–427 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35078170
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