The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2001 jointly to Eric A. Cornell, of JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in ...

A DIY universe mimics the physics of the infant cosmos, a team of physicists reports. The researchers hope to use their homemade cosmic analog to help explain the first instants of the universe’s 13.8 ...

Bose–Einstein condensates are a state of matter in which all the constituent particles exist in their lowest energy level. The Pauli Exclusion Principle prevents more than one electron (an example of ...

On the International Space Station, astronauts are weightless. Atoms are, too. That weightlessness makes it easier to study a weird quantum state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Now, ...

The ability to tune the interactions between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate has led to atomic wave packets that can propagate without dispersion and other novel quantum states. One of the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an ...

This is an image of an experimentally created Bose-Einstein condensate containing the monopole (left) and the corresponding theoretical prediction (right). Brighter area has higher particle density ...

The Bose-Einstein condensate of magnons is so far one of the few so-called macroscopic quantum phenomena that could be observed at room temperature. Previously, the processes in the condensate had ...

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is normally limited to temperatures near absolute zero but researchers have now seen it at a much warmer 100 Kelvin for excitons (electron-hole pairs) in atomically ...