How to Use superfluid in a Sentence

superfluid

noun

• So why shouldn’t dark matter have a superfluid phase, too?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2017
• All the particles there form a superfluid, which can flow without any friction.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
• Related Stories The Bose-Einstein condensate phase is also a superfluid, first made in a lab in 1995.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• But to isolate it in superfluid helium is a big job, one that Mills’s lab will do by tuning a special antimatter beam.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• For comparison, the vorticity of tiny droplets of a superfluid tops out at about 107 per second.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2017
• Or in a lab in Munich, physicists use a superfluid of ultra-cold atoms to settle the debate over whether Higgs-like particles can exist in two dimensions of space (the answer is yes).
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018
• This occurs due to movement in the star's interior, which can exchange momentum between the superfluid there and the crust surrounding it.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2018
• Only discovered in 1983, the helium superfluid allows some for some of the weirder aspects of quantum physics to become visible to the naked eye.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• At temperatures above the point at which liquid helium becomes a superfluid, the transition created a broad peak instead of a sharp one.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2022
• The two teams made different assumptions about how hot the neutrons were to begin with, so their calculations for the temperature at which the superfluid state is possible are different.
  — Lisa Grossman, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2011
• The straightforward conclusion was that the organisms were swimming in a way that neutralized the solution’s internal friction to produce something like a superfluid, a liquid with zero resistance.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2018
• Fluids with no viscosity at all, like superfluids, have some really weird properties.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2018
• Very intelligent aliens can achieve quantum computation by exciting the various energy and spin states in this fermion-gravitonic superfluid.
  — Stephon Alexander, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• Their work explains the behavior of superconductors and superfluids by connecting these systems to topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties including surfaces.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2016
• And other systems that involve superfluids or magnets in place of superconductors exhibit analogous effects while minimizing those problems.
  — Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
• Impossible Superfluids Here on Earth, superfluids aren’t exactly commonplace.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2017

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