Physicists have developed a new optical centrifuge that can precisely spin molecules inside a superfluid for the first time.

Every fluid—from Earth's atmosphere to blood pumping through the human body—has viscosity, a quantifiable characteristic describing how the fluid will deform when it encounters some other matter. If ...

Researchers have created a model that describes the spread and speed of tornado-like vortex tubes in superfluids. This work expands on a previous study that reported experimental results obtained in ...

,An Australian-led study has provided new insight into the behavior of rotating superfluids. A defining feature of superfluids is that they exhibit quantised vortices—they can only rotate with one, or ...

(Upper) Drag is zero without quantum vortices at T = 0. (Lower) Coarse-grained quantum vortices can reproduce the prediction of the Reynolds similitude by forming a turbulent wake with high Reynolds ...

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 ...

Centrifuge enables researchers to control the rotation of molecules suspended in liquid helium nano-droplets, bringing them a step closer to demystifying the behaviour of exotic, frictionless ...

If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates. The weird rules of quantum mechanics lead to all sorts of bizarre phenomena on tiny scales— particles ...