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There wasn't much money in miniaturizing them so far. Cooling down tiny amounts of matter is much easier than cooling down larger amounts, so maybe there's hope
by wongarsu 3y ago
There wasn't much money in miniaturizing them so far. Cooling down tiny amounts of matter is much easier than cooling down larger amounts, so maybe there's hope for a microchip sized BEC in 20 years.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agowhats the smalled device to contain a gradient of 300 degrees C? this is a but solly, like saying you will eventually have a fridge the size if a m9bile phone - us it usefull?
- thesz 3y agoLet us take a look at what boson is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson "multiple identical composite bosons (in this context sometimes known as 'bose particles') behave at high densities or low temperatures in a characteristic manner described by Bose–Einstein statistics: for example a gas of helium-4 atoms becomes a superfluid at temperatures close to absolute zero." Helium leaks as nothing else, even more than hydrogen. Here's some leak rates of heilum: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-the-helium-leak-rate-for-samples-with-different-bonding-materials_fig4_262953618 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-the-helium... Let's say we have a um^3 of helium in the device proposed. Let's assume leak rate of 8*10^-9 of cm^3/sec. (1e-6/1e-2)^3/(8e-9) is equal to 1.2499999999999998e-4 - all helium will leak in 1/8 of microsecond in the device proposed. I hope this helps.