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Coldest: how new quantum states of matter emerged

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, , Citation Chad Orzel 2024 Phys. World 37 (1) 31 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/37/01/23

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1 A popular-science author and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College in the US. He has a PhD in chemical physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied laser cooling at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the lab of Bill Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics

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Abstract

The road to Bose–Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases was paved with ideas that shouldn't have worked, but did, as Chad Orzel explains in the final segment of his three-part history of laser cooling.

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