Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: Yancee on 05/11/2010 09:30:05
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Yancee asked the Naked Scientists:
What are the properties of Bose-Einstein condensate?
What do you think?
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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?
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"What are the properties of Bose-Einstein condensate?"
Which one?
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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.
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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.