{"id":211727,"date":"2025-04-18T02:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-superfluid-how-dipolar-interactions-shape-two-dimensional-superfluid-behavior"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:14:50","slug":"secrets-of-superfluid-how-dipolar-interactions-shape-two-dimensional-superfluid-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/secrets-of-superfluid-how-dipolar-interactions-shape-two-dimensional-superfluid-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of superfluid: How dipolar interactions shape two-dimensional superfluid behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/secrets-of-superfluid-how-dipolar-interactions-shape-two-dimensional-superfluid-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, researchers made a significant observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in a 2D dipolar gas of ultracold atoms. This work marks a milestone in understanding how 2D superfluids behave with long-range and anisotropic dipolar interactions. The researchers are an international team of physicists, led by Prof. Jo Gyu-Boong from the Department of Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr2715\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>In conventional three-dimensional (3D) systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase+transitions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase transitions<\/a>, such as ice melting into water, are governed by the spontaneous breakdown of symmetries. However, pioneering work in the 1970s predicted that two-dimensional (2D) systems could host a unique topological phase transition known as the BKT transition, where vortex-antivortex pairs drive superfluidity without conventional symmetry breaking, with interaction playing a crucial role. Since then, this phenomenon had primarily been studied in various quantum systems with only short-range isotropic contact interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, researchers made a significant observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition in a 2D dipolar gas of ultracold atoms. This work marks a milestone in understanding how 2D superfluids behave with long-range and anisotropic dipolar interactions. The researchers are an international team of physicists, led by Prof. Jo Gyu-Boong from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211727","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=211727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}