{"id":223893,"date":"2025-10-24T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/microscopic-ocean-on-a-chip-reveals-new-nonlinear-wave-behavior"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:20:37","slug":"microscopic-ocean-on-a-chip-reveals-new-nonlinear-wave-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/microscopic-ocean-on-a-chip-reveals-new-nonlinear-wave-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic \u2018ocean\u2019 on a chip reveals new nonlinear wave behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microscopic-ocean-on-a-chip-reveals-new-nonlinear-wave-behavior.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic \u201cocean\u201d on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a layer of superfluid helium only a few millionths of a millimeter thick on a chip smaller than a grain of rice.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ady3042\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Christopher Baker said it was the world\u2019s smallest wave tank, with the quantum properties of superfluid helium allowing it to flow without resistance, unlike classical fluids such as water, which become immobilized by viscosity at such small scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic \u201cocean\u201d on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics, uses a layer of superfluid helium only a few millionths of a millimeter thick on a chip smaller than a grain of rice. The work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223893","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=223893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}