Physicists shed light on superfluidity.(SUPERCONDUCTORS)

Advanced Ceramics Report | September 1, 2006 | Copyright

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related in its behaviour to superconductors.

Observations of superfluids may help answer questions about high-temperature superconductivity. Superconductivity is a form of superfluidity, but for charged particles instead of atoms.

The work was led by Professor Wolfgang Ketterle from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Research Laboratory of Electronics.

Ketterle's team observed the transition to superfluidity of a gas ...

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