How to Use superfluid in a Sentence
superfluid
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All the particles there form a superfluid, which can flow without any friction.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
11 Apr. 2018
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But to isolate it in superfluid helium is a big job, one that Mills’s lab will do by tuning a special antimatter beam.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
9 Dec. 2019
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For comparison, the vorticity of tiny droplets of a superfluid tops out at about 107 per second.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
2 Aug. 2017
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Fluids with no viscosity at all, like superfluids, have some really weird properties.
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Chris Lee,
Ars Technica,
19 Dec. 2018
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This occurs due to movement in the star's interior, which can exchange momentum between the superfluid there and the crust surrounding it.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
11 Apr. 2018
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At temperatures above the point at which liquid helium becomes a superfluid, the transition created a broad peak instead of a sharp one.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
16 Mar. 2022
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In the case of helium, however, sufficient cooling will create a superfluid, at which point its atoms will flow without losing energy to viscosity.
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John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
16 Mar. 2022
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These electrons form a frictionless superfluid inside the material.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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The two teams made different assumptions about how hot the neutrons were to begin with, so their calculations for the temperature at which the superfluid state is possible are different.
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Lisa Grossman,
WIRED,
25 Feb. 2011
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Only discovered in 1983, the helium superfluid allows some for some of the weirder aspects of quantum physics to become visible to the naked eye.
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David Grossman,
Popular Mechanics,
12 Oct. 2017
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The experiment, led by Harris, utilizes a centimeter-scale resonator filled with superfluid helium.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Jan. 2026
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Or in a lab in Munich, physicists use a superfluid of ultra-cold atoms to settle the debate over whether Higgs-like particles can exist in two dimensions of space (the answer is yes).
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Quanta Magazine,
27 Aug. 2018
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Very intelligent aliens can achieve quantum computation by exciting the various energy and spin states in this fermion-gravitonic superfluid.
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Stephon Alexander,
Wired,
31 Aug. 2021
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The combination of flux-carrying B-L strings and superfluid-like PQ vortices could allow for the emergence of stable knot solitons.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Related Stories The Bose-Einstein condensate phase is also a superfluid, first made in a lab in 1995.
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Caroline Delbert,
Popular Mechanics,
9 Dec. 2019
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The straightforward conclusion was that the organisms were swimming in a way that neutralized the solution’s internal friction to produce something like a superfluid, a liquid with zero resistance.
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Quanta Magazine,
26 July 2018
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And other systems that involve superfluids or magnets in place of superconductors exhibit analogous effects while minimizing those problems.
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Frank Wilczek,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2019
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Quantum fluids, such as Bose–Einstein condensates or superfluids, behave according to quantum mechanics rather than classical physics.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Aug. 2025
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So in the Allam cycle, the CO2 is compressed to a superfluid at around 8 MPa, cooled, and then efficiently pumped to 30 MPa.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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Their work explains the behavior of superconductors and superfluids by connecting these systems to topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties including surfaces.
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Quanta Magazine,
4 Oct. 2016
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Impossible Superfluids Here on Earth, superfluids aren’t exactly commonplace.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Quanta Magazine,
13 June 2017
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