Video -- UChicago Scientists See Fireworks from Atoms at Ultra-Low Temperatures (video)

University of Chicago

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UChicago researchers applied a magnetic field to a Bose-Einstein condensate, which jostled the atoms, and they began to collide -- sending some flying out of the condensate. But rather than a uniform field of random ejections, they saw bright jets of atoms shooting together from the rim of the disk, like miniature fireworks.

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Cheng et al/University of Chicago

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