Bose–Einstein condensate

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A Bose–Einstein condensate is an exotic state of matter formed when a dilute gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, causing a large fraction of the particles to occupy the same quantum state and behave as a single quantum entity.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf many-body quantum system
quantum phase of matter
state of matter
firstCreatedAt JILA
University of Colorado Boulder
firstCreatedBy Carl E. Wieman
Eric A. Cornell
firstCreatedInLaboratory 1995
firstCreatedUsing rubidium-87 atoms
hasApplication atom interferometry
precision measurements
quantum information science
quantum simulation
study of quantum phase transitions
study of superfluidity
hasNobelPrizeAssociated 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
hasPhysicalConstituent boson
hasProperty long-range phase coherence
macroscopic occupation of ground state
macroscopic quantum coherence
matter-wave interference
occupies single quantum state
off-diagonal long-range order
quantum degeneracy
superfluidity
ultra-low temperature
hasTheoreticalBasis Bose–Einstein distribution
Bose–Einstein statistics
Gross–Pitaevskii equation
quantum mechanics
second quantization
isDescribedBy macroscopic wavefunction
order parameter wavefunction
isRelatedTo BCS–BEC crossover
Fermi gas
laser cooling
magnetic trap
optical trap
superfluid helium
namedAfter Albert Einstein
Satyendra Nath Bose
predictedBy Albert Einstein
Satyendra Nath Bose
predictionYear 1924
1925
requiresCondition bosonic particles
dilute atomic gas
evaporative cooling
temperature near absolute zero
trapping potential
typicalTemperatureScale microkelvin
nanokelvin

Referenced by (8)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Carl E. Wieman ("Bose–Einstein condensation")
Eric A. Cornell
Satyendra Nath Bose ("Bose–Einstein condensate (theoretical prediction)")
knownFor
Carl E. Wieman ("Bose–Einstein condensation")
Lene Vestergaard Hau ("Bose–Einstein condensates")
fieldOfWork
Satyendra Nath Bose
hasEponym
JILA ("Bose–Einstein condensation")
hasResearchArea
Bose–Einstein statistics
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