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Focus: Atoms Incognito

Adrian Cho

Published Apr 18, 2003• 0 citations
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Abstract

Gregarious bosonic atoms can act like antisocial fermionic atoms, theorists predict, and the fake-fermions can form pairs that mimic a long-sought new state of matter.

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