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Hydrogen: a quantum gas at last
Feb 1, 1999
The experimental observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of rubidium atoms in 1995 had a huge impact on the physics community,
with reports of "a new state of matter" making newspaper headlines all over the world. By comparison,
it was in relative obscurity that Simo Jaakkola and his group at the University of Turku in Finland,
in collaboration with researchers at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow,
recently observed the two-dimensional analogue of the effect (A I Safonov et al. 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 4545).
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