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Has anyone been able to take a monoatomic gas (ex: Helium) and put it in a state where the individual atoms are moving at extremely low velocity (low "translational" temperature) but the atoms themselves have a very high angular momentum (high "rotational" temperature)?

Does this state of a matter have a name? Has anyone studied it/does it have any interesting properties worth exploring?

Sidharth Ghoshal
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Helium-3 is a monoatomic gas with a magnetic moment. This can be exploited to set the helium-3 atoms in rotation with the help of an external rotating magnetic field.

I would still be interested to know what you need this rotation for.

HolgerFiedler
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