Recent physics studies have found that light can sometimes flow in unexpected ways, behaving like a so-called "superfluid." ...

“This superfluid has its own heat transport, and primarily interacts with probes inserted in the bulk.” This effect has some especially interesting consequences for the superfluid’s mechanical ...

When helium-3 is cooled to millikelvin temperatures it becomes a superfluid – a fluid with zero viscosity that can flow forever without any of its kinetic energy being dissipated as heat. Helium-3 ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

For these superfluid properties to emerge, liquids such as helium have to be cooled to extremely low temperatures. "If your morning coffee was a superfluid, and you stirred it with a spoon, ...

Helium was discovered to possess superfluid characteristics at low temperatures in 1936—helium atoms flowed through extremely narrow channels without friction or viscosity.

Superfluid helium-3 is an extremely versatile macroscopic quantum system. Research on it influences a lot of other fields not directly related, such as the study of the Higgs mechanism, ...

If dark matter forms a superfluid at the galactic scale, it could give rise to a new force that would account for the observations that don’t fit the cold dark matter model. Yet at the scale of galaxy ...

When stirred with a rod, superfluid 3 He carries the generated heat away along the surfaces of the container. The bulk of the superfluid behaves like a vacuum and remains entirely passive. Dr ...