Experimental studies of Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas
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Because of the wealth of new phenomena which the condensates display, and the precision and flexibility with which they can be manipulated, interest in them has grown explosively in communities of atomic physics, quantum optics, and many-body physics. At least twenty groups have created condensates, and the publication rate on BoseEinstein condensation has soared following the discovery of the gaseous condensates in 1995 (see Fig. 1).
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