What is the difference between a superfluid and a BEC?

Subject: What is the difference between a superfluid and a BEC?

Date: Tue Feb 22 17:14:13 2005
Posted by John
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Dallas State/Province: TX Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1109114053.Ph

Message:


The descriptions of what makes a B.E.C. and what makes something superfluid are
the same: the individual particles are all bosons and share the same quantum
state.  So what is the difference between them?

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