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Nature 424, 24-25 (3 July 2003) | doi:10.1038/424024a
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- Syngene International
- Bangalore, Karnataka 560099 India
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Cellular Science and Human Health
- Concordia University
- Montreal, Quebec Canada
Condensed-matter physics: Really cool molecules
Paul S. Julienne
Abstract
Ultracold molecules have been made by applying a changing magnetic field to a quantum gas of 'fermionic' atoms. This raises the prospect of creating novel superfluids and molecular Bose–Einstein condensates.
At the quantum level, any particle can also be considered to be a wave, its momentum corresponding to a wavelength. In ultracold atomic gases, at temperatures much lower than a millionth of a degree above absolute zero, the wavelength of the atoms becomes larger than the mean distance between them, giving rise to some remarkable quantum mechanical properties that are at the forefront of contemporary physics research1.
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