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That, at least, was the conclusion of Satyendranath Bose and Albert Einstein, who did the relevant sums in the 1920s, decades before anyone had made a laser, let alone the Bose-Einstein condensate that is named in their honour.
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Their tool, the Bose-Einstein condensate, is a superchilled soup of matter that can be created only when the temperature is near absolute zero.
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The physics prize went to the first makers of Bose-Einstein condensates.
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In a Bose-Einstein condensate, atoms are hardly moving at all.
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The reason Bose-Einstein condensates may prove useful outside the laboratory is that they are to matter what a laser is to light: all their constituent particles march in step.
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The way Dr Hau and her team have slowed down light by a factor of 600 million or so is to use a group of atoms called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).
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The usefulness of Bose-Einstein condensates is debated.
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Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools. (They are particularly valued for their ability to slow the speed of light all the way down to zero.) Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues created a condensate out of a gas of rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap.
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Bosuns themselves are named in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose, Albert Einstein's Indian collaborator.
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That causes the waves to overlap and creates a kind of collective atom as predicted by Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924.
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The remaining five particles in the model are called bosons (after Satyendranath Bose, an Indian physicist who collaborated with Einstein).
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