New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases

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A powerful new JILA technique reveals hidden properties of ultracold atoms in a superfluid in which atoms form pairs like electrons in a superconductor. The JILA group focuses on the crossover stage (middle graphic) between the small pairs of a Bose- ...
A powerful new JILA technique reveals hidden properties of ultracold atoms in a superfluid, in which atoms form pairs like electrons in a superconductor. The JILA group focuses on the "crossover" stage (middle graphic) between the small pairs of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (left) and the extremely large pairs of a low-temperature superconductor (right). Credit: C. Regal/JILA
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a powerful new technique that reveals hidden properties of ultracold atomic gases.


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