Does Cooling Radioactive Material Affect Quantum Condensate Radiation?

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if you cool a radioactive material until it started to exhibit macroscopic quantum effects would it still radiate randomly or would it emit radiation in some coherent way?
 
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As long as the energy released in the decay is much larger than some energy gap (as in a superconductor), there won't be any deviations from the usual decay laws.
 
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