- Alkali Quantum Gases @ MIT Wolfgang Ketterle's group at MIT Welcome to the world of nanokelvin atoms and the magic of matter waves! Links to 2001 Nobel Prize Recent results: BEC waveguide BEC contrast interferometry Pair-correlated atomic beams Degenerate fermions BEC transport over 40 cm Phonon wavefunction Introduction to the field: Our popular papers Our animations Introduction to BEC The ...cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group
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- BEC Homepage Bose-Einstein Condensation in a gas: a new form of matter at the coldest temperatures in the universe... Predicted 1924... ...Created 1995 A. Einstein S. Bose BEC Home How Cold is Cold What is it Laser Cooling Optical Molasses Magnetic Trapping Evaporative Cooling What it Looks Like What it's Good For ...www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec
- Eric Cornell and Carl E. Wieman share* the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Brief history of BEC at NIST Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor, by James Faller, in A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology, NIST Special Publication 958, 375-378 (2000). Observations of Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute atomic vapor, M.H. Anderson, J.R. Ensher, M.R.www.bec.nist.gov