A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

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 ...

Physicists at the University of British Columbia sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide in order to control and study their rotation ...

University of California, Berkeley, physicists can now tune in to and hear normally inaudible quantum vibrations, called quantum whistles, enabling them to build very sensitive detectors of rotation ...

Superfluid helium and Bose–Einstein condensation represent two distinct, yet profoundly interconnected, quantum phenomena that emerge under ultra‐low temperature conditions. In superfluid helium, the ...

Superfluid helium exhibits a range of remarkable physical phenomena that challenge conventional fluid dynamics and heat transfer theories. At temperatures near absolute zero, helium transitions into a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

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 ...

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 ...