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Experiments in Dilute Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensation

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Both theoretical and experimental activity in BEC has expanded dramatically in the three years since the first observation of BEC in a dilute atomic gas. One is tempted to ask, why? Why is there so much interest in the field? Is this burst of activity something that could have been foreseen, in, say, 1990?

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903109,
  title  = {Experiments in Dilute Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensation},
  author = {Eric A. Cornell and Jason R. Ensher and Carl E. Wieman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903109},
  year   = {2007}
}

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54 pages, 8 figures; to be published in the proceedings of the Varenna conference on Bose-Einstein condensation, July 1998