{"id":183152,"date":"2024-02-20T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-finds-quantum-state-of-a-rotating-superfluid-can-discharge-in-three-ways"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T17:27:58","slug":"study-finds-quantum-state-of-a-rotating-superfluid-can-discharge-in-three-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/study-finds-quantum-state-of-a-rotating-superfluid-can-discharge-in-three-ways","title":{"rendered":"Study finds quantum state of a rotating superfluid can discharge in three ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-quantum-state-of-a-rotating-superfluid-can-discharge-in-three-ways3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent study from the University of Helsinki, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.131.221602\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, a vortex of a superfluid that has been quantized four times has three ways of dividing, depending on the temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The fluid transforms into a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superfluid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superfluid<\/a> near the absolute zero point of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">temperature<\/a> (approximately &minus;273\u00b0C). Internal resisting forces, such as friction, disappear. At this point, the behavior of the fluid can no longer be described using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/classical+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">classical mechanics<\/a>; instead, quantum physics must be applied.<\/p>\n<p>When a superfluid is spun, the resulting rotation should never slow down because superfluids have no viscosity or friction. This has been experimented with at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic level<\/a> using helium at very slow rotation, and it was observed that the superfluid, however, eventually halted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study from the University of Helsinki, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, a vortex of a superfluid that has been quantized four times has three ways of dividing, depending on the temperature. The fluid transforms into a superfluid near the absolute zero point of temperature (approximately \u2212273\u00b0C). Internal resisting forces, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183152","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=183152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}