Previous attempts at making such a gas had failed because it proved impossible to cool molecules with large dipole moments to the sub-milliKelvin temperatures needed to create a quantum gas. But now a ...

Researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum mechanics instead of the strictly particle nature of ordinary classical physics. The ...

In 1995 physicists observed Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of atoms for the first time, and four years later Jin and co-workers made the first degenerate Fermi gas. Since then physicists have ...