Bose Einstein Condensate

The Bose Einstein Condensate is a group of atoms at the same energy level. The BEC can only be formed at temperatures as low as a few billionths (0.000,000,001) of a degree above Absolute Zero. Atoms will be at different energy levels at normal temperatures, but once the temperature goes down below a certain threshold a large fraction of the atoms will crash down to the lowest energy level. This results on a unique state as …

…special properties which can make it very useful in the future but until it can be produced more easily it will most likely have no useful applications in the near future due to it fragile state. The BEC could be used in very accurate measurements and more interestingly because of its capability to slow light tremendously, the BEC could also be used in optical computing, computers that work on streams of photons instead of electrons.