Bose-Einstein condensates

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Physicists produce video of time crystal in action 😱

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Scicomm BESSY II Bose-Einstein condensates energy conservation Frank Wilczek Joachim Gräfe magnons MAXYMUS Pauli's exclusion principle phonons quasiparticles space crystals space time crystals spin waves superfluidity synchrotron light source thermodynamic ground state time crystals

Have you heard of time crystals? A crystal is any object whose atoms are arranged in a fixed pattern in space, with the pattern repeating itself. So what we typically know to be crystals are really s…

Superconductivity: From Feshbach to Fermi

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Uncategorized 1-2-3 superconductors absolute zero BCS theory Bose-Einstein condensates Cooper pairs crystal lattice Fermi energy Fermi-Dirac statistics Feshbach resonance Meissner effect Pauli's exclusion principle phonons superconductivity

(This post is continued from this one.) After a bit of searching on Wikipedia, I found that the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of superconductivity were to be found in a statistical concept…