{"id":192094,"date":"2024-06-30T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/rare-form-of-quantum-matter-created-with-molecules-for-first-time"},"modified":"2024-06-30T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:23:31","slug":"rare-form-of-quantum-matter-created-with-molecules-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/rare-form-of-quantum-matter-created-with-molecules-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Rare form of quantum matter created with molecules for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-form-of-quantum-matter-created-with-molecules-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have produced a rare form of quantum matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using molecules instead of atoms.<\/p>\n<p>Made from chilled sodium-cesium molecules, these BECs are as chilly as five nanoKelvin, or about &minus;459.66 \u00b0F, and stay stable for a remarkable two seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese molecular BECs open up an new research arenas, from understanding truly fundamental physics to advancing powerful quantum simulations,\u201d noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbia.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Columbia University<\/a> physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.will-lab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sebastian Will<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve reached an exciting milestone, but it\u2019s just the kick-off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have produced a rare form of quantum matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using molecules instead of atoms. Made from chilled sodium-cesium molecules, these BECs are as chilly as five nanoKelvin, or about \u2212459.66 \u00b0F, and stay stable for a remarkable two seconds. \u201cThese molecular BECs open up an new research arenas, from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192094","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\/192094","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}