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Bose-Einstein condensate
The first matter known to have quantum properties, Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), was predicted by Satyendra Nath Bose in 1925.
Bose later worked with Albert Einstein, who modified and generalised Bose's initial theory, in publishing his research on the topic. It wasn't until in 70 years later, though, in 1995, that the first BEC was produced at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Bose-Einstein condensate is a strange state of matter composed of identical atoms existing at temperatures close to absolute zero. In the extreme cold, the atoms' energies drop to the lowest possible state and they start to act something like a shoal of fish. Locked together at the same energy, they behave as if they are no longer a number of individuals, but instead act as one giant super atom.
BEC can only be made with certain particles called bosons that have a particular atomic spin. The extreme cold causes the atoms to behave like waves rather than particles and 'overlap' one another. It's a difficult thing to imagine, but it seems that's characteristic of things at the extreme cold.
Quantum physicist Christopher Foot, at the University of Oxford in the U.K., also presented his work on cold atoms at the July meeting in Barcelona. He explains that this strangeness doesn't stop with atoms overlapping – atoms at temperatures close to absolute zero also become 'entangled' too.
Spooky actions
"Small particles such as atoms and electrons behave in strange ways that often seem very weird when compared to our everyday experience of large 'ordinary' objects such as a tennis ball or football," he says.
"A single quantum object can exist in two places at once, but this is not really as strange as it first appears when considered in terms of waves. However, there is a second property of quantum systems of two or more particles that is truly difficult to understand," says Foot. "Indeed Einstein pointed out a consequence of [entanglement] which is so bizarre that he thought there must be something wrong."
Atoms possess certain properties, such as their weight, charge, and the direction of spin of their electrons. At close to absolute zero, though, the direction of spin is like the Duke of York's men: neither up nor down. "It is in a state of indecision," says Foot.
A pair of atoms in this undecided state has what Einstein called a "spooky" influence on each other, even at a distance. These entangled atoms can communicate to their partners without the information following any path as we traditionally understand it. It's as if the information is teleported from one atom to another.
"By understanding [entanglement] we can do new things such as build quantum computers that, in the future, could store and process far more information than ordinary computers and may outperform them in certain applications, e.g. cracking the encryption commonly used to transmit information
electronically," says Foot.
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