{"id":118347,"date":"2021-01-11T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/quantum-experiment-reveals-particles-can-form-collectives-out-of-almost-nothing"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:26:40","slug":"quantum-experiment-reveals-particles-can-form-collectives-out-of-almost-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/quantum-experiment-reveals-particles-can-form-collectives-out-of-almost-nothing","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Experiment Reveals Particles Can Form Collectives Out of Almost Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-experiment-reveals-particles-can-form-collectives-out-of-almost-nothing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many particles do you need before individual atoms start behaving collectively? According to new research, the number is incredibly low. As few as six atoms will start transitioning into a macroscopic system, under the right conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Using a specially designed ultra-cold laser trap, physicists observed the quantum precursor of the transition from a normal to a superfluid phase \u2013 offering a way to study the emergence of collective atomic behaviour and the limits of macroscopic systems.<\/p>\n<p>Many-body physics is the field that seeks to describe and understand the collective behaviour of large numbers of particles: a bucket of water, for example, or a canister of gas. We can describe these substances in terms of their density, or their temperature \u2013 the way the substance is acting as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many particles do you need before individual atoms start behaving collectively? According to new research, the number is incredibly low. As few as six atoms will start transitioning into a macroscopic system, under the right conditions. Using a specially designed ultra-cold laser trap, physicists observed the quantum precursor of the transition from a normal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}