Sentences with phrase «like superfluid»

Astronomers could also search for indirect evidence that dark matter behaves like a superfluid.

So how can a solid behave like a superfluid?

Not exact matches

Squeezing the neutrinos into a superfluid requires the kind of pressure generated inside superdense cosmic objects, meaning that in this model, our universe would need to be contained within something like a black hole.

«Unveiling the quantum necklace: Researchers simulate quantum necklace - like structures in superfluids.»

Rather like electrons flowing without electrical resistance, at temperatures close to absolute zero, some atoms turn superfluid, flowing with no friction or physical resistance.

Put a drop of superfluid on most surfaces, and it spreads out into a thin layer, rather than beading like water on glass.

But stir the same helium like coffee and the normal liquid fraction will resist the motion, imparting viscosity to the superfluid mixture, after all.

A superfluid solid sounds like an oxymoron, but it is precisely what researchers at Pennsylvania State University have recently witnessed.

To the researchers» surprise, their calculations showed that turbulent flows of a class of superfluids on a flat surface behave not like those of ordinary fluids in 2 - D, but more like 3 - D fluids, which morph from relatively uniform, large structures to smaller and smaller structures.

In the case of superfluids, Chesler and his colleagues found that in 2 - D, superfluids behave unlike ordinary fluids in 2 - D, but more like ordinary fluids in 3 - D, dispersing energy at smaller and smaller scales.