Low-temperature physics gives insight into turbulence
A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists.
General Physics
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News tagged with vortices
New mechanism found for generating giant vortices in quantum fluids of light
Anyone who has drained a bathtub or stirred cream into coffee has seen a vortex, a ubiquitous formation that appears when fluid circulates. But unlike water, fluids governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics have ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 8, 2021
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Vortex top hats emerge in superfluids
,An Australian-led study has provided new insight into the behavior of rotating superfluids.
General Physics
Sep 7, 2020
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Multidimensional, dual-channel vortex beam generator
Optical vortices, characterized by a helical phase front and doughnut-shaped intensity distribution, contribute to a broad range of applications, from microscopy to optical communications. And applications for optical vortices ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 28, 2020
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Researchers discover skyrmions can split like biological cells
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of quasiparticle with properties that could lead to the next generation of data storage and transfer— reproduce by splitting ...
Nanophysics
Jun 11, 2020
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Chaos generated with a nanoscale magnetic vortex
Magnetic vortices are nanoscale whirls that gyrate like spinning tops, tracing out paths in a clockwise or counter-clockwise manner in nanometer-thick materials. Under certain conditions, this sense of gyration can flip repeatedly, ...
Nanophysics
Feb 5, 2020
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Confirmation of old theory leads to new breakthrough in superconductor science
Phase transitions occur when a substance changes from a solid, liquid or gaseous state to a different state—like ice melting or vapor condensing. During these phase transitions, there is a point at which the system can ...
Superconductivity
Jun 28, 2019
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Scientists measure exact edge between superconducting and magnetic states
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a method to accurately measure the "exact edge" or onset at which a magnetic field enters a superconducting material. The knowledge of this threshold— ...
Superconductivity
Feb 28, 2019
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Scientists simulate a black hole in a water tank
Certain phenomena that occur in black holes but cannot be directly observed in astronomic investigations can be studied by means of a laboratory simulation. This is possible due to a peculiar analogy between processes that ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2019
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New quantum structures in super-chilled helium may mirror early days of universe
For the first time, researchers have documented the long-predicted occurrence of 'walls bound by strings' in superfluid helium-3. The existence of such an object, originally foreseen by cosmology theorists, may help explaining ...
General Physics
Jan 16, 2019
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