{"id":32144,"date":"2016-11-22T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/synopsis-quantum-droplets-swell-to-a-macrodrop"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:17:12","slug":"synopsis-quantum-droplets-swell-to-a-macrodrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/synopsis-quantum-droplets-swell-to-a-macrodrop","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis: Quantum Droplets Swell to a Macrodrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synopsis-quantum-droplets-swell-to-a-macrodrop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments with ultracold magnetic atoms reveal liquid-like quantum droplets that are 20 times larger than previously observed droplets.<\/p>\n<p>Ultracold atoms can exhibit quantum behavior that mimics superfluids and superconductors. Tuning the atom-atom interactions can also reveal never-before-seen phases of matter. Following this approach, researchers working with magnetic atoms in a cigar-shaped trap have generated a single liquid-like macrodroplet, containing 20 times more atoms than in previously observed droplets. The experiment demonstrates that the stability of these droplets is due to quantum fluctuations.<\/p>\n<p>When trapped atoms are cooled to near absolute zero, they form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which their wave functions become coherent. The BEC is a macroscopic quantum object, but some of its quantum behaviors (such as quantum fluctuations) are difficult to observe because their effects are small compared to the mean-field interaction energy in this dilute system. For this reason, researchers are eager to reach parameter regimes where quantum fluctuations reveal themselves.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.6.041039\">http:\/\/physics.aps.org\/synopsis-for\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.6.041039<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments with ultracold magnetic atoms reveal liquid-like quantum droplets that are 20 times larger than previously observed droplets. Ultracold atoms can exhibit quantum behavior that mimics superfluids and superconductors. Tuning the atom-atom interactions can also reveal never-before-seen phases of matter. Following this approach, researchers working with magnetic atoms in a cigar-shaped trap have generated a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32144","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\/32144","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49558,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32144\/revisions\/49558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}