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Calculating with Bose condensates

Could Bose Einstein condensates be used as calculators? The answer to this question could be yes according to physicists in France and Italy. Yvan Castin and colleagues of the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris and Sandro Stringari at the University of Trento say that condensates could be used to experimentally observe the roots of mathematical expressions called "random polynomials" for the first time (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 040405).