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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: Yancee on 05/11/2010 09:30:05

Title: What are the properties of Bose- einstein condensate?
Post by: Yancee on 05/11/2010 09:30:05

Yancee asked the Naked Scientists:
   
What are the properties of Bose-Einstein condensate?

What do you think?

Title: What are the properties of Bose- einstein condensate?
Post by: Bill S on 09/11/2010 15:04:12

Hi, Yancee.  Responses seem to be slow coming in, perhaps not the most encouraging reception for a guest, but I'm sure someone out there knows the answer to your question and will come up with it soon.  In the meantime, have you looked at the Wikipedia article?

Title: What are the properties of Bose- einstein condensate?
Post by: Bored chemist on 10/11/2010 07:06:20

"What are the properties of Bose-Einstein condensate?"
Which one?

Title: What are the properties of Bose- einstein condensate?
Post by: QuantumClue on 15/11/2010 09:28:52

Slow? How about non-existent?

The propertied of a Bose-einstein condensate is one where the particles are weakly interacting. It's basically a gas of bosons (particles with integer spin) which has been cooled to very low temperatures.

Title: What are the properties of Bose- einstein condensate?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 16/11/2010 09:07:47

The important feature of a Bose-Einstein condensate is that the atoms or molecules involved in the condensate are all at exactly the same energy, indistinguishable from each other and the condensate acts just like a single entity, like a drop of water.  In a quantum mechanical sense all the wave functions become merged and coherent and provided that you treat it very gently it stays together.