{"id":176794,"date":"2023-11-26T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/creating-vortices-in-a-superfluid-made-of-light"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T14:28:11","slug":"creating-vortices-in-a-superfluid-made-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/creating-vortices-in-a-superfluid-made-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Creating vortices in a superfluid made of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/creating-vortices-in-a-superfluid-made-of-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By using a special combination of laser beams as a very fast stirrer, RIKEN physicists have created multiple vortices in a quantum photonic system and tracked their evolution. This system could be used to explore exotic new physics related to the emergence of quantum states from vortex matter. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.3c01021\">published<\/a> in the journal Nano Letters.<\/p>\n<p>In principle, if you were to swim in a pool filled with a superfluid, a single stroke would be all you need to swim an infinite number of laps. That\u2019s because, unlike normal fluids like water, superfluids have no resistance to motion below a certain velocity.<\/p>\n<p>Superfluids also behave weirdly when stirred. \u201cIf you stir a bucket of water, you typically get just one big vortex,\u201d explains Michael Fraser of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science. \u201cBut when you rotate a superfluid, you initially create one vortex. And when you rotate it faster, you get progressively more and more vortices of precisely the same size.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By using a special combination of laser beams as a very fast stirrer, RIKEN physicists have created multiple vortices in a quantum photonic system and tracked their evolution. This system could be used to explore exotic new physics related to the emergence of quantum states from vortex matter. The research is published in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176794","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}