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Ultracold atoms

How hot is the coldest matter?

Nature Physics volume 11, pages 706–707 (2015)Cite this article

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A thermometer for atomic Bose–Einstein condensates and a new way of cooling below the critical temperature will help the exploration of the coldest states of matter.

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  1. Martin Zwierlein is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and principal investigator at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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