Quantum Leap: Scientists Witness Liquid Behavior in Ultracold Gas for the First Time
April 22, 2025
In a thrilling scientific achievement, scientists in Europe have seen liquid behavior in a quantum gas for the first time. This discovery could change scientists’ understanding of matter in extreme quantum states.
Cooling Atoms to Near Absolute Zero
To do this, the researchers took potassium and rubidium atoms and cooled them to close to absolute zero (-273.15°C). At these temperatures quantum effects dominate, and matter can behave in very weird and interesting ways.
During the course of the experiment, the ultracold atoms began to condense into small droplets. The different droplets astonished the scientists, as the droplets were still in a gas but acted like a liquid, which challenged our normal categorization of different phases of matter.
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Why This Is Important
This discovery opens up a new avenue for research to learn about quantum fluids. It may also provide another layer of meaning to superfluidity, quantum interactions, and properties of new forms of matter. In the end, it opens new paths toward more powerful quantum computers, incredibly precise measurements, and maybe even advances in fundamental physics.
A Milestone in Quantum Physics
This is a major breakthrough in experimental quantum physics and opens yet another frontier in new physics—the linking of gas and liquid at ultra-low temperature—to provide avenues for exploring new physical properties and interactions that were only previously theorized or might be considered ‘unknown.’
Here’s another example where quantum research is consistently changing our understanding of our universe in time—and changing what we think of as being the limits of science.
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