Before getting too worked up over the superatom, remember that it may be a good metaphor for energy gain in condensed matter systems but the superatom simply cannot be involved in the Rohner scam.
BTW - even Stirling Allan is covering his backside on this scam and apparently now believes that the pop effect is due to strong eddy repulsion in a hidden aluminum ring. The plastic piston does not work without the ring, and you get the same pop without or without the special gas. Clever showmanship, but not gainful. Anyway moving on to real physical anomalies in order to create the required BEC phenomenon, these researchers cooled atoms to what is essentially absolute zero, and saw the lowest temperature ever achieved. If they could have done it at higher temperature, they would have. It is also worth noting, in looking for correlates in the real world of energy systems, that although each hydrogen atom has spin ½, when they are a bound-pair in a Casimir cavity, they can act as a composite boson. Other factors in quantum magnetic alignment would indicate that a bound pair of protons is much easier to take to a bosenova state. IIRC, we on vortex coined that neologism long before these guys. Check the archives. Having said that it is worth mentioning again in this context - the concept of comperature (introduced by F. Grimer). Comperature is a single variable which is an amalgam of pressure and temperature at the atomic level. These two properties should not be separated in the practical sense, as Boyle observed many years ago and perhaps they cannot be truly separated at all. Hydrogen, which has been captured in the Casimir pores of a ferromagnetic metal at ambient - can experience the equivalent of absolute zero by having high effective over-voltage which is the same as extreme compression. At a loading of 1:1 in a metal matrix, the effective pressure is well over 10,000 bar, and the comperature would have an effective temperature equivalent to near absolute zero, even at ambient normal temperature. It is not known how high the normal temperature can go to maintain Bose statistics in the bound and aligned pair. Jones
