{"id":182436,"date":"2024-02-10T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/first-ever-images-of-heat-sloshing-like-sound-waves-captured-by-mit-in-a-superfluid"},"modified":"2024-02-10T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T19:23:08","slug":"first-ever-images-of-heat-sloshing-like-sound-waves-captured-by-mit-in-a-superfluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/first-ever-images-of-heat-sloshing-like-sound-waves-captured-by-mit-in-a-superfluid","title":{"rendered":"First-ever images of heat \u2018sloshing\u2019 like sound waves captured by MIT in a superfluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-images-of-heat-sloshing-like-sound-waves-captured-by-mit-in-a-superfluid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers applied the higher resonant radio frequency, which prompted any normal, \u201chot\u201d fermions in the liquid to ring in response. The researchers then <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/physicists-discover-time-can-flow-both-ways-in-materials\" title=\"could zero in\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">could zero in<\/a> on the resonating fermions and track them over time to create \u201cmovies\u201d that revealed heat\u2019s pure motion \u2014 a sloshing back and forth, similar to sound waves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we can take pictures of this substance as we cool it through the critical temperature of superfluidity, and directly see how it transitions from being a normal fluid, where heat equilibrates boringly, to a superfluid where heat sloshes back and forth,\u201d Zwierlein says.<\/p>\n<p>The experiments mark the first time scientists have been able to image second sound directly and the pure motion of heat in a superfluid quantum gas. The researchers plan to extend their work to map heat\u2019s behavior more precisely in other ultracold gases. Then, they say their findings can be scaled up to predict how heat flows in other strongly interacting materials, such as high-temperature superconductors and neutron stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers applied the higher resonant radio frequency, which prompted any normal, \u201chot\u201d fermions in the liquid to ring in response. The researchers then could zero in on the resonating fermions and track them over time to create \u201cmovies\u201d that revealed heat\u2019s pure motion \u2014 a sloshing back and forth, similar to sound waves. \u201cFor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182436","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}