{"id":205454,"date":"2025-02-04T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/superfluid-spirals-scientists-control-kelvin-waves-for-first-time"},"modified":"2025-02-04T04:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:22:00","slug":"superfluid-spirals-scientists-control-kelvin-waves-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/superfluid-spirals-scientists-control-kelvin-waves-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Superfluid spirals: Scientists control Kelvin waves for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superfluid-spirals-scientists-control-kelvin-waves-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02720-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing Kelvin waves in superfluid helium-4.<\/p>\n<p>First described by Lord Kelvin in 1880, Kelvin waves are helical (spiral-shaped) waves that travel along the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vortex\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vortex<\/a> lines, playing a vital role in how energy dissipates in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a>. However, they are difficult to study experimentally.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a controlled setting to observe them has been the biggest challenge that the researchers overcame. Phys.org spoke to the first author of the study, Associate Prof. Yosuke Minowa from Kyoto University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing Kelvin waves in superfluid helium-4. First described by Lord Kelvin in 1880, Kelvin waves are helical (spiral-shaped) waves that travel along the vortex lines, playing a vital role in how energy dissipates in quantum systems. However, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205454","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}