What is the Bose-Einstein State and How Does it Compare to Plasma?

[DR_henegar]

I need help, and not just from Wikipedia. I need to know what is know about the State Bose-Einstein State...the state more solid than..solid...per se.

 

[alxm]

"More solid than solid, in itself"? What does that mean?

Superfluid helium is a partial BEC, and not particularly 'solid'.

 

[Gokul43201]

And in BECs involving alkali metal atoms (among the most popular kind of BECs), the density of the condensate is actually about a million times lower than that of air at STP.

 

[Dr Lots-o'watts]

Here's an introduction to the subject:
http://www.nature.com/news/1998/040112/full/news040112-7.html

And here's a somewhat recent starting point for litterature:
http://www.optical-lattice.com/supersolid_optical_lattice.pdf

Briefly, it looks like a solid crystal where lattice vacancies flow like a superfluid (coherently).

 

[Gokul43201]

Note that the above references are for supersolids. To understand them, one must first have a reasonable understanding of BECs.