Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of Japanese researchers has discovered a method to control Kelvin wave excitation in superfluid helium-4. This breakthrough ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of a whirlpool. Scientists have created a giant quantum tornado inside a helium superfluid, and they want ...

Quantum turbulence in superfluid helium arises from the complex dynamics of quantised vortices within a frictionless fluid that coexists with a normal viscous component. Unlike classical turbulence, ...

Researchers have created a model that describes the spread and speed of tornado-like vortex tubes in superfluids. This work expands on a previous study that reported experimental results obtained in ...

Scientists from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University have shown how silicon nanoparticles can become trapped inside the vortices that form inside superfluid helium. This work ...

Researchers use silicon nanoparticles to help visualize the coalescence of quantized vortices that occur in superfluid helium, which can help improve our understanding of quantum fluids and materials, ...

Researchers have observed the vortices that form in superfluid helium by blasting silicon nanoparticles at them using laser ablation. The after observing the patterns of light scattering off the ...

University of California, Berkeley, physicists can now tune in to and hear normally inaudible quantum vibrations, called quantum whistles, enabling them to build very sensitive detectors of rotation ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs would be spontaneously created out of nothing, through a phenomenon ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing Kelvin waves in superfluid helium-4. First described by Lord Kelvin in ...