Cold Atom Laboratory creates atomic dance

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 16:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Like dancers in a chorus line, atoms' movements become synchronized when lowered to extremely cold temperatures. To study this bizarre phenomenon, called a Bose-Einstein condensate, researchers need to cool atoms to a temperature just above absolute zero - the point at which atoms have the least energy and are close to motionless.

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