Packet 6: Bonus 12

Deborah S. Jin led the CU Boulder team that observed the first instance of an example of this type of matter in potassium-40. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this general type of matter in which particles are accumulated into a single quantum state. The Gross–Pitaevskii equation models one example of this type of matter.
ANSWER: condensate [accept Bose–Einstein condensate or Fermi–Dirac condensate or fermionic condensate]
[10h] This scientist’s quasiparticles are the elementary excitations of BECs, whose Hamiltonian is diagonalized by a namesake transformation. This Soviet physicist originated the study of weakly interacting Bose gases.
ANSWER: Nikolay Bogoliubov [or Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov; accept Bogoliubov quasiparticles or Bogoliubov transformation]
[10e] The role of bogolons in superconductivity is analogous to the role of phonons in Debye’s (“duh-BYE’s”) model for this thermodynamic quantity. For water, this quantity is 4.18 Joules per Kelvin.
ANSWER: heat capacity [accept specific heat capacity; prompt on C-sub-v or C-sub-p]
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HeardPPBE %M %H %
2418.7596%71%21%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaMinnesota10101030MHE
BruinColumbia B100010M
CambridgeVanderbilt1001020ME
Columbia AToronto A001010E
GeorgetownBrown001010E
Georgia Tech BRutgers10101030MHE
HarvardMaryland A1001020ME
Illinois BPurdue1001020ME
IndianaStanford A10101030MHE
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech A1001020ME
MITToronto B1001020ME
Maryland BUCF1001020ME
NYU AChicago A10101030MHE
NYU BOhio State001010E
Northwestern AVirginia Tech1001020ME
Northwestern BNorth Carolina001010E
Penn StateMichigan001010E
PittsburghTexas001010E
SwarthmoreCornell1001020ME
UC Berkeley AUC Berkeley B1001020ME
UCLAGeorgia Tech C10101030MHE
VirginiaStanford B1001020ME
WashUIllinois A1001020ME
WaterlooChicago B001010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2418.7596%71%21%