Title: `March Madness` Effects Observed in Ultracold Gases
Post by: Orstio on April 01, 2006, 06:45:25 PM
Click here to read the article ... (http://www.everything-science.com/content/view/188/1/) Physicists at Harvard University, George Mason University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered new quantum effects in ultracold gases that may lead to improved understanding of electrical conductivity in metals.
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[P]In work presented at the March meeting of the American Physica. . .
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