Physicists have finally watched a fluid that should never freeze lock itself into a crystal pattern, then melt back again, all without losing its quantum strangeness. In a sheet of graphene, they ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists have officially spotted characteristics of superfluidity (a quantum fluid with zero viscosity) ...

Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team has now demonstrated ...

Duke University researchers may have reached a milestone in physics by cooling and confining a gas of lithium-6 atoms into a kind of oscillating “jelly” exhibiting group behavior uncharacteristic of ...

In most materials, heat prefers to scatter. If left alone, a hotspot will gradually fade as it warms its surroundings. But in rare states of matter, heat can behave as a wave, moving back and forth ...

Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning for developing seminal theories that explain an important type of superconductivity and a related phenomenon known as superfluidity. Their ...

Helium nanodroplets offer a unique medium for realising and exploring quantum fluid behaviour at ultralow temperatures. These nanoscale clusters of helium atoms, which exist in a superfluid state ...

A research team led by Prof. PAN Jianwei, Prof. WAN Zhensheng and Prof. DENG Youjin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) observed counterflow superfluidity in two-component ...