ShareSupersolid helium.
Author(s) : BEAMISH J.
Type of article: Article
Summary
Superfluids flow without resistance. It's hard to imagine, but quantum mechanically possible, that solids should do the same at low enough temperatures. Helium-4 might be the first known 'supersolid'. At temperatures below 2.176 K, helium-4 enters a superfluid state and flows without friction. This 'perpetual motion' makes fluidity - perhaps even more than its electronic counterpart, superconductivity - the most dramatic manifestation of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale. Despite its appeal, and despite many searches for superfluidity in other systems, it remains an uncommon phenomenon.
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- Original title: Supersolid helium.
- Record ID : 2004-1527
- Languages: English
- Source: Nature - vol. 427 - n. 6971
- Publication date: 2004/01/15
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- Date : 2004/01/15
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 427 - n. 6971
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