Solid leaves a super signature
Mar 10, 2004
At sufficiently low temperatures and sufficiently
high densities, certain types of atoms
form a Bose–
Einstein condensate. In this peculiar phase
of matter, the wavefunctions of all the
atoms in a system become identical and extend
throughout the container in which the
atoms are held. The position of an atom inside
the container is therefore not defined,
and the probability of finding the atom is
the same at all points.
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