Bose Einstein Condensate - Now In India

Posted by Sajith M on Sep 6th, 2007
2007
Sep 6

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) researchers Sanjukta Roy and Saptarishi Chaudhuri with C.S. Unnikrishnan, have produced the Bose Einstein Condensate - the fifth state of matter for the first time in India.

Bose Einstein Condensate for the first time in India

The Telegraph report:

The researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, led by physicist C.S. Unnikrishnan, have produced for the first time in India an exotic state of matter, first predicted 82 years ago by Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose.

The TIFR scientists used magnetic fields and lasers to cool atoms to an extremely low temperature — a whisker above minus 273.15 C, or absolute zero — and created a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC), sometimes called the fifth state of matter.

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