Superfluid Definition and 33 Threads

It has been hypothesized by quantum field theory that the vacuum is not empty due to the energy time uncertainity relationship. Instead it is filled with a sea of virtual particles popping in and out of existence and renormalized to the observed value we see today in experiments like the casimir...

I am doing a final year project on vortex interactions and have searched for several research articles about quantum hydrodynamics. Most said that ''Any rotational motion of a superfluid is sustained only by quantized vortices.'' Is this something provable from the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation or...

When helium 4 becomes a super fluid does the proper time change, can this be detected?

Hi, Wikipedia says CERN uses 100 gallons of superfluid helium 4 to cool its superconducting magnets. Why use superfluid helium 4 (2K) as apposed to regular liquid helium (4.2K). As far as I can see from Internet sources, the helium serves to keep the magnets in order to keep them in a...

I am reading "Introduction to superfluidity" by Andreas Schmitt. He mentions the global symmetry U(1). What other symmetries are there in superfluids? Thank you.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04083 UV completion of a theory of Superfluid Dark Matter Andrea Addazi, Antonino Marciano (Submitted on 12 Jan 2018) We show that a model of superfluid dark matter, modifying the Newtonian potential and explaining galactic rotational curves, can be unitarized by the...

Testing Quantum Gravity Johan Hansson, Stephane Francois (Submitted on 19 Oct 2017) The search for a theory of quantum gravity is the most fundamental problem in all of theoretical physics, but there are as yet no experimental results at all to guide this endeavor. What seems to be needed is a...

Hi. I don't understand the meaning of "up to total derivatives". It was used during a lecture on superfluid. It says as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lagrangian for complex scalar field ##\phi## is $$ \mathcal{L}=\frac12 (\partial_\mu \phi)^*...

Homework Statement Homework Equations Given in the above picture The Attempt at a Solution I have tried to rearrange the relationship between P and R to gain an expression for R, in terms of P. I subbed that into the expression for E and attempted to differentiate. I ended up with this...

Homework Statement 2. Homework Equations are given in the above picture 3. The attempt at the solution In part a) I simply rearranged the other expressions given and subbed them into the relationship for relative velocity and came out with Vns= Qdot/ρsT(1- ρn/ρs).Then in part b) I started by...

Yes, I'm aware of the countless threads about perpetual motion here. Not sure if this idea has been considered with superfluids, though. I'm no physics expert (basically a laymen), but the idea of a superfluid in perpetual motion intrigues me because I can't imagine why it wouldn't be possible...

I thought this was pretty cool: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKOlfR5OcB4 You can skip about the first 2 minutes, which are just the credits and some footage of them transferring some fluid. Nice concrete demonstration of various fun stuff such as superfluidity and second sound.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01019v1.pdf What do you think? Not published yet, but one of the authors is a postdoc at Princeton and the other a Princeton PhD and prof at U Penn so they might know something. As far as I know, the superfluid dark matter theory is deprecated because models of the...

This the best description of Dark Matter i have come across, it uses the LCDM and MOND to create a best fit model. arXiv:1507.03013 [pdf, other] A Dark Matter Superfluid Justin Khoury Comments: 8 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the 2015 Rencontres de Moriond, "Gravitation: 100 years...

I haven't learned about this yet in school but I'm assuming as the atoms condense down to a single wavelength the volume of the liquid would be very small. If this condensate was instantly released out of a vacuum and into normal atmospheric pressure, would the volume rapidly expand? Secondly...

Suppose you have a bucket filled with superfluid Helium-4 and you spin it with a large angular velocity Ω, the bucket obviously has angular momentum. Spinning fast enough, the fluid develops irrotational vortex lines which carry quanta of angular momentum, while leaving the curl of the ∇xv 0...

Suppose you have a body floating in a rotating superfluid. Maybe a speck of dust. Would it rotate? What if you have two bodies connected in some way. Would this system rotate around its center of mass?

An atomic SQUID has been created from a superfluid circuit: http://jqi.umd.edu/news/first-controllable-atom-squid What are the applications of this? If you could have a superfluid coil, then could it generate some kind of field, like the way an electric coil does? Given that the...

Imagine a big superfluid cloud the size of the Moon, at the same distance of the Moon in front of the Sun. A total eclipse of 7 minutes. What would happen with the light coming from the sun during these 7 minutes? Would we see a "night sun"? Another question. "Estimates of the photon...

What prevents helium from becoming solid at normal atmospheric pressure? All other elements are solid at 0K, why does helium stay a superfluid liquid?

What do we mean by "broken symmetries" when referring to superfluid he3 phases? I struggle to understand the concept of broken symmetries of the superfluid phases of 3He. Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks :)

A superfluid has zero viscosity. Lift of an airfoil (and any shape for that matter) is zero without fluid viscosity. So, superfluids shouldn't generate lift when flowing around an airfoil. Is that true? I think it is impossible for a superfluid not to generate lift on an airfoil, because...

I know there is a connection with the thermal conductive properties of a material and the electrical conductive properties, so I'm curious as to the electrical conductivity of superfluid helium (below the lambda point).

So I was checking out some cool videos on youtube of helium in superfluid state and I have a question about it. How exactly does this superfluid have both zero and non-zero viscosity at the same time? The evidence seems pretty clear that it exhibits zero viscosity since it forms a Rollin...

Would a ship float in a superfluid? Would anything float in a superfluid? I think, that the frictionless behavior of the superfluid would prevent anything from floating, because it just can't "grab" to anything, would be like vacuum, no? Yes, ships float because they displace volume of water...

I am trying to derive the wave equation for 'Second Sound in superfluid Helium-4 using the basic tenets of the two-fluid model. I am following the derivation in a book which has intermediate steps along the way - I am trying to fill in the gaps. I am almost there - there is only one step that I...

if helium is 'superfluid' at low temperatures then is it correct to think of amorphous solids as 'superviscous'?

I'm a physicist doing a course on condensates, superfluidity and superconductivity and I'm confused as to how these states overlap. Are all BECs necessarily superfluid? Are all superfluids necessarily BECs? The literature is incredibly ambiguous :frown:

h ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid Wikipedia states that, in the context of superfluids: I assume what is meant is that the atoms have bosonic an fermionic properties under super-cooled conditions. I gather that the spin of the constituents of the atom (protons, neutrons...

What is the biggest quantity of superfluid that has ever been made so far? Is it in the "macroscopic" range? Will the superfluidity be destroyed by photographing the stuff? Can one get a snapshot of it creeping up the bucket's wall, etc?

In a superfluid a small volume of liquid can be considered to behave as a single particle.Does this mean that ,for example,one cm^3 of helium-4 atoms has a total spin of 2?

Superfluid model of quantum gravity? This article is from the new Scientific American online magazine. Everything (and MUCH MORE) that the physicists in this article are explaining as a simple tentative direction of study has already been fleshed out in Sorce Theory. see...