What?

Yuki Sato at the Rowland Institute at Harvard found that a Bose-Einstein condensate can behave like a Superconducting Quantum Interface Device that may have a use as an ultrasensitive magnetometer.

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B.E.C.?
Bose-Einstein Condensates are substances that are in a state of matter, cooled to almost absolute zero. Bosons ( Integer Spin Particles) dont obey the Pauili Exclusion principle and can occupy the same quantum state at a particular length scale. Quantized effects can then be seen in macroscopic systems.

B.E.C. and Superconductivity?

Superconductivity , the effect of asymptotically low resistance at a critical temperature, is best explained by B.C.S. theory in which pairs of electrons act as bosons (cooper pairs) and can condense at low temperatures, or rather at a particular energy gap. The electrons then behave Bose-Einstein statistics instead of Fermi Applications? statistics. Once the electrons condense you can Using the S.QU.I.D. to our advantage we can detect fluctuations in magnetic fields imagine how easy it becomes to transmit or dipole moments on the order of atoelectrical signals literally a sea of electrons. Teslas 10-18 . Magnetometers of this B.E.C sensitivity is perfect for intensive scattering experimentation. The method Yuki Sato used to produce the image directly above may give insight to improving magnetometers resulting in advances in macroscopic quantum physics or superconductivity, superfluids, and B.E.C. gases.
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Figure 1 (a) Superposition of horizontal light sheet and a rapidly moving vertical beam is used to create attractive potentials for BECs. By translating the vertical beam in the horizontal plane, Ryu et al. can paint an arbitrary trapping configuration. (b) Using this technique, Ryu et al. created a potential in the form of a loop interrupted by two thin barriers. (c) Absorption image of a BEC in this potential, resembling a dc-SQUID-like configuration. Superconducting Quantum Interface Devices take

S.QU.I.D.?

advantage of the Josephson effect. This effect is an emergent property of the bosons in B.E.C. formation. When two superconductors are brought close and separated by an insulator, the electron pairs can quantum tunnel through the barrier resulting in a superposition of waves and a direct current. We can detect a change in this current very well if in the right configuration.
Superconductor

Superconductor

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Insulator