"Popular" articles on BEC

Several articles in popular journals have covered the progress in Bose-Einstein condensation. These articles less technical, more accesable to people outside the field, and often quite entertaining (see Physics Today August 1997 for example).

• Science, 8 July 1994
• Science, 14 July 1995
• Physics Today, August 1995
• Science, 3 November 1995
• Science, 22 December 1995
• Physics Today, March 1996
• Science, 14 June 1996
• Physics Today, August 1996
• Physics World, October 1996
• Science, 31 January 1997, First atom laser shoots pulses of coherent matter, and A new recipe for atom condensates (cover article)
• Nature, 20 February 1997, The amazing atom laser
• Physics Today, March 1997, Bose condensates are coherent inside and outside an atom trap, and Trap holds condensates of two different spin states at once (cover article)
• Optics & Photonics News, April 1997, Researchers demonstrate first atom laser
• Physics Today, August 1997, A beginner's guide to the atom laser

Collected by W. Ketterle's group at MIT