{"id":150055,"date":"2022-11-13T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/research-team-creates-a-superfluid-in-a-record-high-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T21:23:48","slug":"research-team-creates-a-superfluid-in-a-record-high-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/research-team-creates-a-superfluid-in-a-record-high-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Research team creates a superfluid in a record-high magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-creates-a-superfluid-in-a-record-high-magnetic-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field is a synthetic magnetic field, generated using laser beams, and is 100 times stronger than that of the world\u2019s strongest magnets. Within this magnetic field, the researchers could keep a gas superfluid for a tenth of a second\u2014just long enough for the team to observe it. The researchers report their results this week in the journal Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>A superfluid is a phase of matter that only certain liquids or gases can assume, if they are cooled to extremely low temperatures. At temperatures approaching absolute zero, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> cease their individual, energetic trajectories, and start to move collectively as one wave.<\/p>\n<p>Superfluids are thought to flow endlessly, without losing energy, similar to electrons in a superconductor. Observing the behavior of superfluids therefore may help scientists improve the quality of superconducting magnets and sensors, and develop energy-efficient methods for transporting electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 face_with_colon_three MIT physicists have created a superfluid gas, the so-called Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in an extremely high magnetic field. The magnetic field is a synthetic magnetic field, generated using laser beams, and is 100 times stronger than that of the world\u2019s strongest magnets. Within this magnetic field, the researchers could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}