This condensation occurs because bosons, unlike fermions, do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle and can occupy the same quantum state. The critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation ...

In this case, the Cold Atom Laboratory used Rubidium, a soft and reactive metal just like Potassium, to form the Bose-Einstein condensate. The atoms were corralled and then supercooled.

Common sense suggests that complex phenomena such as Bose–Einstein condensation require complicated experimental set-ups to be observed. But when it comes to the field of photonics, the simplest ...