Room-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate

According to uni-protokolle.de:

A group of physicists led by Prof. Sergej Demokritov from the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Münster, in cooperation with physicists from Kaiserslautern University of Technology (Germany), Oakland University (USA), and Kiev University (Ukraine) has recently found a tricky way to enhance the number of magnons in the gas significantly by exciting additional magnons using microwaves. Thus, the number of magnons in the gas could be increased considerably. Although the additional magnons exist only during one millionth of a second, the scientists were able to investigate the gas behaviour using a laser probe beam technique. Thus, the scientists from Münster who are performing their work in the Münster Center for Nonlinear Science, have succeeded to show that additional magnons in fact initiate the condensation of magnons in a collective quantum state even at room temperature, as it was predicted by A. Einstein. A report on this work has been recently published in Nature.