A BEC is a group of atoms that have the same quantum wavefunction. See the BEC Homepage for more information. [Predicted 1924, created 1995]

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...aren't like the solids, liquids and gases that we learned about in school. They are not vaporous, not hard, not fluid. Indeed, there are no ordinary words to describe them because they come from another world -- the world of quantum mechanics. [See A New Form of Matter]

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...aren't like the solids, liquids and gases that we learned about in school. They are not vaporous, not hard, not fluid. Indeed, there are no ordinary words to describe them because they come from another world -- the world of quantum mechanics. [See A New Form of Matter]

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