Chen, Yong P.; Hitchcock, J.; Dries, D.; Junker, M.; Welford, C.; Pollack, S. E.; Corcovilos, T. A.; Hulet, R. G. Experimental studies of Bose-Einstein condensates in disorder. (English) Zbl 1167.82321 Physica D 238, No. 15, 1321-1325 (2009). Summary: We review recent studies of the effects of disorder on an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We focus particularly on our own experiments with \(^{7}\)Li BECs in laser speckle. Both the interaction, which gives rise to the nonlinearity in a BEC, and the disorder can be tuned experimentally. This opens many opportunities to study the interplay of interaction and disorder in both condensed matter physics and nonlinear science. 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