Bose-Einstein condensates are macroscopic quantum objects of a larger number of atoms. Normally, Bose-Einstein condensates are generated in elaborate laser apparatus structures known as magneto-optical traps. Professor Ernst Rasel''s team of researchers from the Institute of Quantum Optics at Leibniz Universität Hannover has realised the Bose-Einstein condensates on miniaturised atom chips, then, in cooperation with an international research consortium, shot them into space by means of the MAIUS-1 research rocket mission and investigated them in many different ways.
First results of the investigations have now been published in the renowned scientific journal "nature". Nature volume 562, pages391-395 (2018), DOI:10.1038/s41586-018-0605-1
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