Swirling Just Above Absolute Zero
Top down view of a spherical ball of rubidium atoms pock marked with regularly spaced A colorized lattice of tornado-like vortices within a spinning Bose Enstein condensate of rubidium atoms. Formed in an ultrahigh vacuum at temperatures of only a few hundred billionths of degree above absolute zero, such condensates are a new tool for studying quantum mechanics.


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