Following the creation of atomic Bose–Einstein condensates in the mid-1990s, a major goal has been to produce a condensate of molecules. Technical challenges remain, but that achievement is now tantalizingly close.
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Zoller, P. Making it with molecules. Nature 417, 493–494 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417493a
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