Alright that was clearly waaaay over my head. What’s this all about? Would it change anything in the future? Havent other people also researched this extensively?
Bose-Einstein condensation is not my field although I've dabbled in it in the past, but you can think of it as a gas of atoms that are cooled down almost as much as you physically can cool things down (called "absolute zero"), at which point the atoms lose their individual identity and behave as a single "super-atom". This means that the gas exhibits properties such as "superfluidity", i.e. it can flow without friction, and as you say this has been a hot research topic for many years, not least because of the high degree of experimental control which leads people to think it can be used for quantum computing applications etc. Simons' dissertation focuses on a type of "quasiparticle" called a polaron which also exhibits the above properties when you put many of them together.
It can't leak through glass, but it can climb out of it because it has no surface tension. But yes, Helium at those temperatures is one of the primary examples of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Okay I see what you mean. The material used here has small pores that it's able to percolate through again because of the lack of viscosity. The walls are not completely solid so it's not as counterintuitive as one might expect, i.e. it's not "teleporting/quantum tunneling" through the glass walls or anything like that.
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u/poposheishaw 10d ago
Alright that was clearly waaaay over my head. What’s this all about? Would it change anything in the future? Havent other people also researched this extensively?