with s = n g / m being the speed of sound in the condensate, also known as second sound. The fact that ϵ ϵ q / ( ℏ ℏ q ) > s shows, according to Landau's criterion, that the condensate is a superfluid, meaning that if an object is moved in the condensate at a velocity inferior to s, it will not be energetically favorable to produce excitations, and the object will move without dissipation, which is a characteristic of a superfluid. Experiments have been done to prove this superfluidity of the condensate, using a tightly focused blue-detuned laser. The same dispersion relation is found when the condensate is described from a microscopical approach using the formalism of second quantization.