Visit by Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle
23 May 2024
|By David Haworth
Nobel physics laureate Prof Wolfgang Ketterle told a crowd of around 200 at Swinburne University of Technology last week about Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), and other strange states of matter that exist at nano-Kelvin temperatures, which open a new door to the quantum world where particles behave as waves and ‘march in lockstep’. He expressed excitement at the discoveries that could remain to be made “if we can reach the pico-Kelvin scale”. ‘The talk was co-presented by Swinburne University, FLEET and the Victorian branch of the Australian Institute of Physics.