ONE WAVEFUNCTION. MILLIONS OF ATOMS
Millions of atoms. One macroscopic field.
The Gross-Pitaevskii equation turns a many-body quantum system into a powerful field description. But Ψ is not an atom. It is the condensate's macroscopic order parameter.

ONE WAVEFUNCTION. MILLIONS OF ATOMS
Millions of atoms. One macroscopic field.
The Gross-Pitaevskii equation turns a many-body quantum system into a powerful field description. But Ψ is not an atom. It is the condensate's macroscopic order parameter.