Condensate
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Condensate may refer to:
- The liquid phase produced by the condensationCondensationCondensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization. When the transition happens from the gaseous phase into the solid phase directly, the change is called deposition....
of steamSteamSteam is the technical term for water vapor, the gaseous phase of water, which is formed when water boils. In common language it is often used to refer to the visible mist of water droplets formed as this water vapor condenses in the presence of cooler air...
or any other gas - The product of a chemical condensation reactionCondensation reactionA condensation reaction is a chemical reaction in which two molecules or moieties combine to form one single molecule, together with the loss of a small molecule. When this small molecule is water, it is known as a dehydration reaction; other possible small molecules lost are hydrogen chloride,...
, other than water - Natural gas condensateNatural gas condensateNatural-gas condensate is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields....
, in the natural gas industry
Quantum physics
- Canonical quantization or vacuum expectation valueVacuum expectation valueIn quantum field theory the vacuum expectation value of an operator is its average, expected value in the vacuum. The vacuum expectation value of an operator O is usually denoted by \langle O\rangle...
, in quantum field theory - Bose–Einstein condensateBose–Einstein condensateA Bose–Einstein condensate is a state of matter of a dilute gas of weakly interacting bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near absolute zero . Under such conditions, a large fraction of the bosons occupy the lowest quantum state of the external potential, at...
, a substance which occurs at very low temperatures in a system of bosons - Fermionic condensateFermionic condensateA fermionic condensate is a superfluid phase formed by fermionic particles at low temperatures. It is closely related to the Bose–Einstein condensate, a superfluid phase formed by bosonic atoms under similar conditions. Unlike the Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates are formed using...
, a substance which occurs at very low temperatures in a system of fermions
Theoretical states
- Color glass condensateColor glass condensateThe color glass condensate is an extreme type of matter theorized to exist in atomic nuclei travelling near the speed of light.According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, a high-energy nucleus appears length contracted, or compressed, along its direction of motion...
, an extreme type of matter theorized to exist in atomic nuclei travelling near the speed of light - Top quark condensateTop quark condensateIn particle physics, the top quark condensate theory is an alternative to the Standard Model in which a fundamental scalar Higgs field is replaced by a composite field composed of the top quark and its antiquark. These are bound by a four-fermion interaction, analogous to Cooper pairs in a BCS...
, theory is an alternative to the Standard Model