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| The interior of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate, showing an array of 12 spontaneously appearing vortices. Bright regions correspond to low condensate density, and color denotes the phase of the condensate wavefunction. (Image courtesy of David L. Feder and Peter Ketcham, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland.) | ||