In everyday life, conductors are materials that conduct electricity. These materials are used to make metallic wires that carry electricity into our homes. In contrast, insulators, which don’t conduct electricity, surround these wires in our plugs so we don’t get electrocuted plugging in our computers, appliances, and lights. The difference between a conductor and an insulator is often the...
Leo Radzihovsky
Content About: Leo Radzihovsky
Published:
Mon, 12/08/2014 - 2:15pm
Type of Content: Article-Research Highlight
In 2013, the Cornell and Jin groups created and studied an extremely strongly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of rubidium atoms (85Rb). This BEC was short lived and far out of equilibrium. At the time the experimentalists wondered if this new BEC could be a quantum liquid because the quantum...