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Immanuel Bloch’s group transitioned one of these substances to a Mott insulator from a superfluid phase. Lene Hau transferred a beam of light carrying a qubit between two of these substances. An equation describing these substances contains a pseudopotential equal to “four pi times h-bar squared times scattering length over mass.” Collisions between two components of these substances can form a short-lived Feshbach (15[1])resonance. The single-particle wavefunction of these substances is governed by the (*) Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Wolfgang Ketterle created one of these substances using sodium atoms, a few months (10[1])after Cornell and Wieman created the first one by using laser cooling on a vapor of rubidium-87 atoms. For 10 points, identify this“fifth state (10[1])of matter” (10[1])consisting (-5[1])of ultracold atoms with integer spin. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: BEC [or Bose-Einstein condensates; prompt on Bose gas or ultracold quantum gas or Fermi gas or Bose liquid or Fermi liquid; prompt on condensates]
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Derek ChenColumbia AColumbia C6315
Kushal AluruRutgersNYU C8910
Andrew MinagarYaleBard11310
Eddie FuhrerLehigh ALehigh B11510
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU ANYU B116-5
Evan SchleckGathererColumbia B1230
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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y683%17%17%100.60
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%0%50%107.00
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%25%50%103.50
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