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

Figure 4: The processes involved in oscillatory (a.c.) motion. Suppose the acceleration stops to give a final steady velocity above v L. The surface excitation distributions will gradually come into ...

Physicists have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit; exotic particles that stick to all surfaces in the superfluid. The discovery may guide applications in ...

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 ...

Scientists at MIT have directly captured signs of “second sound” in a superfluid for the first time. This bizarre phenomenon occurs when heat moves like sound waves through an unusual state of matter.

Domain walls: MRI image of superfluid helium-3 where the boundaries between regions of different chirality appear as dark vertical lines. (Courtesy: J Kasai et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.) Topological domains ...

Researchers have discovered how superfluid helium 3He would feel if you could put your hand into it. The interface between the exotic world of quantum physics and classical physics of the human ...

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 ...

Cool stuff: an experiment done by Samuli Autti (right) and colleagues at Lancaster University has shed new light on the mechanical properties of superfluid helium-3. (Courtesy: Mike Thompson) For the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Australian researchers has proposed an instrument called ODIN (Optomechanical Dark-matter Instrument) that can allow ...

Scientists have known for centuries that light is composed of waves. The fact that light can also behave as a liquid, rippling and spiraling around obstacles like the current of a river, is a much ...