News tagged with superfluid
Frozen helium-4 may be an unusual 'superglass'
May 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When helium is cooled to around 4 degrees above absolute zero, it turns liquid. Make it a couple of degrees cooler, and it becomes a "superfluid" that flows without resistance from its container, ...
Flatland physics probes mysteries of superfluidity
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just ...
Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold “boson” atoms—the ingredients ...
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A Truly 'Super' Fluid
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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In the world of quantum mechanics, surprising discoveries are often made. For instance, what happens when you take a fermionic superfluid and convert it into a bosonic superfluid? The answer: a new superfluid that has surprising ...
Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed
Aug 02, 2008 |
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Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...
New method extracts neutrons from superfluid helium
Sep 21, 2007 |
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“There are many applications for ultracold neutrons in fundamental physics,” Oliver Zimmer tells PhysOrg.com. “And we will find even more applications with a stronger source of ultracold neutrons.” Zimmer, a scientist at the ...
Laser experiments reveal strange properties of superfluids
Dec 22, 2006 |
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Princeton University electrical engineers are using lasers to shed light on the behavior of superfluids -- strange, frictionless liquids that are difficult to create and study. Their technique allows them to ...
Researchers Create New Form of Matter
May 17, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.
MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity
Jul 20, 2006 |
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For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance.
Scientists Announce First Observation of ‘Persistent Flow’ in a Gas
Nov 27, 2007 |
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Using laser light to stir an ultracold gas of atoms, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have demonstrated ...
Quantum Criticality Found in a Simple Liquid
Sep 07, 2007 |
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A team from the Low Temperature Laboratory, Royal Holloway, University of London, has discovered a breakdown of the standard theoretical model of strongly interacting fermions in liquid 3He films.
'Wedding Cake' Images Display Transitions between Exotic Quantum States
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Transitions are exciting. And at temperatures close to absolute zero, studying the transition from one quantum phase to another tantalizes physicists looking for a deeper understanding of ...
New model describes avalanche behavior of superfluid helium
Apr 24, 2007 |
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By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades ...
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