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Scratching the Bose surface

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There are two distinct types of particles in nature: fermions and bosons. But it seems bosons may assume similar characteristics to fermion systems in the low-temperature regime typical of Bose–Einstein condensation.

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Figure 1: Fermi and Bose surfaces in two dimensions.

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Sachdev, S. Scratching the Bose surface. Nature 418, 739–740 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/418739a

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