Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks
Oooh, aaah!H. Fu et al By Leah Crane It’s a big boom, only on a miniature scale. When waves build up in a quantum fluid of ultracold caesium atoms, they can cause the atoms to ripple outwards in a starburst shape, creating beautiful, tiny, fireworks. The fireworks occur in a Bose-Einstein condensate, (BEC), a quantum… Read More »