In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing ...

Kelvin waves have been a mystery for decades but a new method involving superfluid helium-4 can help us control them.

Superfluid helium-3 (³He) is a fascinating state of ... superconductors and the understanding of fermionic flat bands[4]. Finally, the thermal properties of superfluid ³He in aerogels have ...

Švančara and his colleagues, however, wanted to take this a step further – with superfluid helium. This is an isotope of ...

Quantum turbulence is a fascinating phenomenon that occurs in superfluid helium, a state of matter that ... lead to the onset of quantum turbulence[4]. Superfluid: A phase of matter that flows ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Quantized Vortex Rings in Superfluid Helium ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 211 No. 6 (December 1964), p. 116 doi:10.1038 ...

ODIN combines the principles of opto-mechanics with the properties of superfluid helium. While the former is the science of making optical devices, the latter is a unique phase of helium that ...