Abstract
Phase transitions are among the most dramatic phenomena in nature. Minute variations in the conditions controlling a system trigger a fundamental change of its properties. In the critical regime near a second-order phase transition point the fluctuations of the order parameter are so dominant that they completely govern the behaviour of the system on all length scales. The correlation length of the ultracold gas measures the characteristic length scale of these fluctuations and diverges at the critical temperature.
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