Atoms Don't Dance The 'Bose Nova': Realization Of An Excited, Strongly Correlated Many-body Phase

An Austrian research group has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully realized an exotic state, where, due to the laws of quantum mechanics, atoms align along a one-dimensional structure. A stable many-body phase with new quantum mechanical states is thereby produced even though the atoms are usually strongly attracted which would cause the system to collapse.

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