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Quantum Disappearance of a Bose-Einstein Condensate As the coldest form of matter known to exist, atomic Bose-Einstein condensates are unique forms of matter where the constituent atoms lose their individual identities, becoming absorbed into the cloud as a whole. Effectively, these gases become a single macroscopic object that inherits its properties directly from the quantum world.In a paper accepted by Physical Review Letters (cond-mat/0412738), Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicists George E. Cragg and Arthur K. Kerman describe the quantum properties of a unique kind of condensate where the atoms have an enhanced propensity to pair, thereby leading to a molecular character which coexists with the atoms.
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