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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 (15[1])to “four pi times h-bar squared times scattering length over mass.” Collisions between two components of these substances can form a short-lived (15[1])Feshbach 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 (10[1])months after Cornell and Wieman created the first one by using laser (10[1])cooling on a (10[1])vapor of (10[1])rubidium-87 atoms. For 10 points, identify this“fifth state of matter” (10[1])consisting of ultracold atoms with integer spin. ■END■

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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Roxanne TangOhio StateMichigan C4015
Ryan ZhangPenn State ANorth Carolina6215
Sam MacchiVassarIowa8810
Conor ThompsonIowa StatePenn State B10010
Calvin BostlemanOhio StateCase Western10310
Dennis YangMichigan AWUSTL10510
Andrew ZengStanfordMichigan C11510

Summary

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
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%17%0%95.50
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y1100%100%0%40.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%33%91.67