Simply weird stuff: Making supersolids with ultracold gas atoms

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold 'boson' atoms - the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates - into a 'supersolid,' an exotic state of matter that behaves simultaneously as a solid and a friction-free superfluid...

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