Supersolid Quantum Gases in a New Dimension

Two-dimensional supersolid quantum gas produced in the laboratory for the first time. Credit: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch

Two-dimensional supersolid quantum gas produced in the laboratory for the first time.

Quantum gases are very well suited for investigating the microscopic consequences of interactions in matter. Today, scientists can precisely control individual particles in extremely cooled gas clouds in the laboratory, revealing phenomena that cannot be observed in the everyday world. For example, the individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate are completely delocalized. This means that the same Supersolid Quantum Gases in a New Dimension