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The Fermionic Version of Bose-Einstein Condensates

Posted by chrisd on from the fonzie-says-relax dept.

Sargent1 writes "According to Science magazine's web page, a group of physicists at Duke University have managed to cool fermions to the point that they may be seeing superfluidity in a fermi gas. If they are seeing fermionic superfluidity, their work is to fermions what Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is to bosons, and the creation of BEC won some folks the Nobel prize in 2001. Beyond that, they've got the fermions interacting so strongly that they're a good analog of fermions in white dwarfs and neutron stars. This gives experimenters the chance to investigate neutron stars without having to have one parked out back in the lab."

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  2. Arthur C Clarke said it well.... by heikkih · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "And how many supernovae, I wonder, really are industrial accidents?"