The possibility of creating optical fields with many photons in a single mode of a resonator was realized with the creation of the laser in 1960. The possibility of creating a matter‐wave field with many atoms in a single mode of an atom trap—the atomic equivalent of an optical resonator—was realized with the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) in 1995.
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