The authors of the new work were able to achieve the quantum state of the Bose-Einstein condensate for the molecular
A Bose-Einstein condensate is an aggregate state of matter based onbosons cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero (less than a millionth of a kelvin).
In such a strongly cooled state, a sufficiently large number of atoms find themselves in their minimum possible quantum states and quantum effects begin to manifest themselves at the macroscopic level.
Atoms are simple spherical objects, whereas molecules canSince molecules can do many different things, it doesThey are more useful, but at the same time they are much more difficult to control.
Chen Chin, Professor, Head of Study
To bring gas molecules into quantumstate, the authors first cooled them down to 10 nanokelvins - almost to absolute zero - and then squeezed them under ultrahigh pressure so that they lined up in a line of identical molecules with the same orientation and the same vibration frequency, that is, brought them into a quantum state.
Now scientists have managed to link several thousand molecules, but they are confident that in the future the scale of experiments will become more impressive.
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