More than empty ingredients

1995/09/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Fisika

In 15 seconds, the superatom hypothesis postulated by Einstein and Bos in the 1920s has become a tangible dream, confirming the researchers of the Colorado JILA Laboratories that hundreds of atoms can play together. The reason for the research was the freezing of rubidium atoms to make them real. In this situation it was thought that atoms would lose their bonding forces and that, like a giant atom, they would move together. The idea has not been corrupt.

Einstein and Bos first postulated the theory of the giant atom. This means that applying to atoms a temperature that exceeds absolute zero, the bond between particles disappears de facto. In this situation all atoms move in the same direction and in the same direction and acquire the same characteristics. In other words, these atoms behave like a single atom.