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Physicists take molecules to a new ultracold limit, creating a state of matter where quantum mechanics reigns

Posted in particle physics, quantum physics

There’s a hot new BEC in town that has nothing to do with bacon, egg, and cheese. You won’t find it at your local bodega, but in the coldest place in New York: the lab of Columbia physicist Sebastian Will, whose experimental group specializes in pushing atoms and molecules to temperatures just fractions of a degree above absolute zero.