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Strange supersolid state of matter created in new dimension
• arcleinSeveral teams of researchers have made supersolids using another state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). These are made up of a low density gas cloud of atoms cooled down to almost absolute zero, and at that point, they exhibit strange quantum quirks that aren't normally seen on such a large scale. All the atoms in the BEC exist at every point within the cloud at the same time, in a phenomenon called delocalization.