The rapid expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a cloud of atoms cooled to temperatures very near to absolute zero in which all the atoms occupy the same quantum state, can mimic the expansion of the early Universe, according to a team of physicists from the University of Maryland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute. Their work is published in the journal Physical Review X.
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