Some speculate that
studying superfluids could help understand the origins of the universe; in the moments following the Big Bang, the universe was uniform in density and similar to a superfluid.
Not exact matches
«In a
superfluid... things which are very far away [from the center] move really slowly, whereas things [that] are close to the center move very fast,» explains OIST Professor Thomas Busch, one of the researchers involved in the
study.
Esslinger and his colleagues wondered if they could observe the transition from non-
superfluid to
superfluid, and use this as a model for
studying the onset of superconductivity.
This
study relates to the long - standing debate about the nature of the
superfluid state in Fermi systems.
They have used advanced mathematical methods to
study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors,
superfluids or thin magnetic films.
«Now we are able to
study this form of matter in a new way that allows us to see how quantum mechanics manifests itself in the motion of an isolated
superfluid,» Gessner said.