Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Japanese researchers has discovered a method to control Kelvin wave excitation in superfluid helium-4. This breakthrough ...

So long, solitons: University of Chicago physicists have shown that a group of scientists were incorrect when they concluded that a mysterious effect found in superfluids indicated the presence of ...

Superfluid Helium-3 serves as a paradigm for unconventional quantum fluids, exhibiting multiple p-wave paired phases distinguished by broken symmetries and topological order. In bulk, the chiral ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

A team of astronomers, including Danai Antonopoulou and Anna Watts from the University of Amsterdam (Uva), has discovered that sudden speed jumps in the rotational velocity of pulsars have a minimum ...

Silicon nanoparticles stabilized along the quantized vortex cores. (Courtesy: Y Minowa) The researchers observed that the nanoparticles clustered along a curved line, confirming that they were trapped ...

Researchers use silicon nanoparticles to help visualize the coalescence of quantized vortices that occur in superfluid helium, which can help improve our understanding of quantum fluids and materials, ...

Physicists in the UK have created a camera that can image the complex tangles of vortices that form inside a helium-3 superfluid. Developed by Theo Noble and colleagues at Lancaster University, the ...

Superfluid helium-3 is a paradigmatic quantum liquid, exhibiting unconventional pairing and a range of distinct superfluid phases. When confined in aerogels, which are highly porous materials, the ...