To Condense or Not to Condense
- 25 October 2002
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 298 (5594) , 760-761
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078819
Abstract
Bosonic particles choose between a classical crystalline or a Bose-Einstein condensed ground state depending on the strength of their interactions. In his Perspective, Rice explains how this competition can be observed in quantum magnets composed of spin-dimer arrays when a magnetic field is applied. This generates spin triplet bosons with a tunable density. Magnetization plateaus correspond to spatially ordered arrays of the spin triplets. The detailed structure of such an array has been unraveled in a recent NMR experiment.Keywords
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