Imagine watching the impossible happen: from an empty space, tiny whirlpools suddenly spin into existence, as if conjured ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

P hysicists at MIT have achieved a major feat, capturing a bizarre quantum effect called second sound on film, where heat ...

Superfluid helium reveals a manageable analog to the Schwinger effect. It deepens understanding of vortices and quantum ...

“Second sound is the hallmark of superfluidity, but in ultracold gases so far you could only see it in this faint reflection ...

Quantum mechanics affects the small and tiny usually, but at extremely low temperatures quantum behavior can become macroscopic. This is the case of helium, which can be a superfluid: a liquid that ...

Scientists at MIT have directly captured signs of “second sound” in a superfluid for the first time. This bizarre phenomenon occurs when heat moves like sound waves through an unusual state of matter.

Domain walls: MRI image of superfluid helium-3 where the boundaries between regions of different chirality appear as dark vertical lines. (Courtesy: J Kasai et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.) Topological domains ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the cold, dense medium of a helium-3 superfluid, scientists recently made an unexpected ...

The ultra-dense remains of the galaxy's youngest supernova are full of bizarre quantum matter. Two new studies show for the first time that the core of the neutron star Cassiopeia A, is a superfluid, ...