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*as of ‘17 SEPTEMBER 2023’*
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*BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES*
a phase in which a large number of bosons all inhabit the same quantum state, in effect becoming one single wave/particle.
This is a low energy phase that can only be formed in laboratory conditions and in very cold temperatures.
It must be close to zero Kelvin, or absolute zero.
Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted the existence of such a state in the 1920s, but it was not observed until 1995 by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman.
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*NEUTRON-DEGENERATE MATTER*
found in neutron stars.
Vast gravitational pressure compresses atoms so strongly that the electrons are forced to combine with protons via inverse beta-decay, resulting in a super dense conglomeration of neutrons.
(Normally free neutrons outside an atomic nucleus will decay with a half-life of just under 15 minutes,
but in a neutron star, as in the nucleus of an atom, other effects stabilize the neutrons
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*QUARK-GLUON PLASMA*
A phase in which quarks become free and able to move independently (rather than being perpetually bound into particles, or bound to each other in a quantum lock where exerting force adds energy and eventually solidifies into another quark) in an ocean of gluons
(subatomic particles that transmit the strong force that binds quarks together).
May be briefly attainable in particle accelerators,
or possibly inside neutron stars
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