Thanks for your reply. I believe you are correct regarding the competition between energies.
If a BEC were to be achieved, wouldn't all the atoms in the condensate then share the same quantum state? If so, wouldn't they then all have to decay either at once or not at all? Maybe if...
So this is a very novice but sincere question. I've just done a bit of reading about Bose-Einstein condensates, and the question that I immediately had was, What happens if one creates a BEC out of an isotope which is subject to radioactive decay? Would the atoms all necessarily remain in the...