Scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology first observed the Einstein-de Haas effect in a Bose-Einstein condensate with spinor and dipole properties.[1] The Einstein-de Haas effect is a physical phenomenon in which the angular momentum from the microscopic spins of atoms is transferred to the mechanical rotation of a macroscopic system.[1] In the experiment, scientists cooled approximately 50,000 europium atoms to a temperature of around 349 nanokelvins.[3] The researchers observed how quantized vortices dynamically form in the depolarized spinor components of the condensate through the coherent transfer of angular momentum from atomic spins to the macroscopic quantized circulation.[1] The magnetic dipole-dipole interaction caused a dynamic disruption of the spherical symmetry of the condensate and its transformation into an axisymmetric structure.[1] These results confirm theoretical predictions about the formation of swirling vortices in magnetic Bose-Einstein condensates with spin degrees of freedom.[3] Europium represents a unique system for studying this phenomenon because it has unusually small spin-dependent interactions and a dipole length four times greater than chromium, which has been the only other substance with similar properties studied to date.[3]