Superfluid Essays

  • Superfluids and Superconductors

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    supercooled alkali gas atoms. Although this development didn't come until late in the 20th century, many of these strange properties were observed in supercooled He4 by Dr. Pyotr Kapitsa. Helium became the standard for observing superfluid phenomenon, and most new superfluid properties are still observed first in Helium 4. Superconductivity, a similar phenomenon, was discovered in 1911 by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. When he cooled some mercury down to liquid helium temperatures, it began

  • Nine States of Matter? The Lesser Known States of Matter

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    liquid, gas, and plasma. Fortunately this is not true as that would be boring. There are also at least 4 other-less common states and Icontest a fifth. These are Bose-Einstein condensate, photonic molecules, quark-gluon plasma, superconductors, and superfluids. They all have unique properties that clearly distinguish differences between them and the traditional four states. These breakthroughs could help us in the future and have some practical uses right now. My personal favorite state of matter is

  • Importance And Importance Of Condensed Matter

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    1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Definition Condensed Matter Physics is branch of physics that deals with the physical properties of condensed matter such as liquids and solids. This branch of study seeks to understand the behavior of condensed phases of matter by using established laws of physics. [Taylor, Philip L. 2002] Liquids and solids are the most well-known forms of condensed matter but there are others particularly as a result of quantum physics. Condensed matter physics asserts to atoms as closer

  • Vortex Filament As A Variable Formed By Luigi Sante Da Rios

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    in an ideal fluid. These are important models of localised vortex structures that often emerge as distinctive features in a variety of physical phenomena. Vortex filaments can be used to describe various physical phenomena, such as the flow of superfluids, and to model filamentary structures that arise in geological and climatological systems and magnetohydrodynamics\footnote{\eg tornado's and slender plasma-filled tubes in the solar corona}. The oldest and simplest mathematical model of the dynamics

  • Helium

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    Helium (Greek helios,"sun"), symbol He, inert, colorless, odorless gas element. In group 18 of the periodic table, helium is one of the noble gases. The atomic number of helium is 2. Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the spectrum of the corona of the sun during an eclipse in 1868. Shortly after it was identified as an element and named by the chemist Sir Edward Frankland and the British astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer. The gas was first isolated from terrestrial sources in 1895 by the British