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Published online 14 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031110-16
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Molecules form new state of matter
Austrian and US teams make complex condensate.
Researchers have coaxed a group of molecules into a weird type of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate, or BEC. The achievement gives physicists a powerful new tool for investigating phenomena such as superconductivity.
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