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Collisional avalanches are identified to be responsible for an 8-fold increase of the initial loss rate of a large (87)Rb condensate. We show that the collisional opacity of an ultracold gas exhibits a critical value. When exceeded, losses due to inelastic collisions are substantially enhanced. Under these circumstances, reaching the hydrodynamic regime in conventional Bose-Einstein condensation experiments is highly questionable.
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