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to gases, which spread to fill their containers.<br />
But they were far less dense than any liquid that<br />
exists under normal circumstances, and<br />
maintained their liquid state through a<br />
process known as quantum fluctuation. The<br />
researchers cooled a gas of<br />
potassium atoms cooled to minus 459.67<br />
degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273.15 degrees<br />
Celsius), close to absolute zero. At that’s a state<br />
of matter where cold atoms clump together<br />
and start to physically overlap. These<br />
condensates are interesting because their<br />
interactions are dominated by quantum laws,<br />
rather than the classical interactions which<br />
can explain the behaviour of most large bulks of<br />
matter.<br />
Potassium condensate droplets, however,<br />
aren't dominated by those other forces and have<br />
very weakly- interacting particles, and<br />
therefore spread themselves across much wider<br />
spaces — even as they hold their droplet<br />
shapes. Compared t o similar helium<br />
droplets, the authors write, this liquid is<br />
two orders of magnitude larger and eight<br />
orders of magnitude more dilute.<br />
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https://www.livescience.com/g00/technology<br />
Namratha Thatipamula<br />
EEE - II year<br />
When researchers pushed two of these<br />
condensates together, they formed droplets,<br />
binding together to fill a defined volume. But<br />
unlike most liquids, which hold their droplet<br />
shapes together through the electromagnetic<br />
interactions between molecules, these droplets<br />
held their shapes through a process known<br />
as "quantum fluctuation “emerges<br />
from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.<br />
These new droplets are unique in that quantum<br />
fluctuation is the dominant effect holding<br />
them in their liquid state.<br />
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