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When a cloud of atoms is cooled near absolute zero, the atoms merge into a Bose–Einstein condensate, an exotic fluid where the entire cloud shares a single quantum state. Theory predicts that as a disordered quantum gas transitions to this ordered state, a tangle of tiny vortices forms and gradually unravels. A team led by Sebastian Morris at the University of Cambridge used a novel imaging approach to directly observe the decay of these vortices for the first time. Their observations, reported in Physical Review Letters, confirm the predicted “Vinen turbulence” behavior.

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