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Universe’s coolest lab creates bizarre quantum matter in space

Physicists have made a Bose–Einstein condensate on the International Space Station — allowing them to probe the mysteries of quantum physics in detail.
  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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For 25 years, physicists have used an exotic state of matter made from ultracold atoms to probe quantum behaviour at the macroscopic scale. Now, they can do it in space.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01773-z

Read the related News & Views article: Quantum matter orbits Earth

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  1. Aveline, D. C. et al. Nature 582, 193–197 (2020).

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