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Nature 443, xiii (28 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/7110xiiia; Published online 27 September 2006

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Physicists show possibility of creating superatoms from solids.

A Bose–Einstein condensate is matter in a phase distinct from solids, liquids and gases — it can be brought about from some gases at very low temperatures. When sufficiently chilled, most atoms in such gases drop to the same quantum level and essentially act as one overlapping atom — a 'superatom'.

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