6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
5:28 p.m.
I just listened to a lecture regarding supercold (micro/nano Kelvin) atoms. I hadn't realized it before, but two different isotopes of the same element can have vastly different properties at extremely low temperatures if one is a boson and the other is a fermion. Apparently, someone showed this happening with two different isotopes of lithium. Can these properties be utilized to _separate_/_sort_ isotopes into the part containing the bosonic isotopes and the part containing the fermionic isotopes?