Dark solitons in Bose–Einstein condensates have been made to live long enough for their dynamical properties to be observed. They might serve as a sensitive probe of the rich physics at the mesoscale.
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Anglin, J. Quantum canaries learn to fly. Nature Phys 4, 437–438 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys980
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