this is going to change a few things... http://dao.mit.edu/~wen/NSart-wen.html and for the bravest of us: http://dao.mit.edu/~wen/ his home page http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0508/0508020v2.pdf the science http://dao.mit.edu/~wen/pub/chapter11.pdf the math... take a seat...
its a brave new world, yes sir ;-) http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=3729 thats the local approach, a bit less grandiose but... loads of new forms / states of "matter" being & to be discovered... loads of fun ahead! http://www.physorg.com/news85329550.html http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-56819.html http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR07/SessionIndex2/?SessionEventID=67106 a good reference book it seems: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/62325/excerpt/9780521862325_excerpt.pdf don't get put off, check out the last page of course some of this is somewhat old news i realize... http://www.firstscience.com/home/ar...2-fermionic-condensates_1229.html?comment=all but glad to see we are moving way beyond your kitchen sink experiment BEC condensate...