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BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves

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After decades of effort to produce an atomic Bose condensate, this was finally achieved in June, 1995 in a laser-cooled magnetically trapped gas of 87Rb atoms by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at JILA (University of Colorado and N.I.S.T.). As of July, 1999 (4 years later), there are now over 20 experimental groups around the world who can routinely produce and study such atomic Bose condensates. In addition, over 1000 theoretical papers have been published!

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    Luc Vinet

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Griffin, A. (2002). BEC and the New World of Coherent Matter Waves. In: Saint-Aubin, Y., Vinet, L. (eds) Theoretical Physics at the End of the Twentieth Century. CRM Series in Mathematical Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3671-7_4

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