A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

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Physicists have used a new optical centrifuge to control the rotation of molecules suspended in liquid helium nano-droplets, bringing them a step closer to demystifying the behavior of exotic, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For nearly a century, scientists have known about the strange, zero-viscosity existence of superfluids. However, less is known ...

Superfluid helium and Bose–Einstein condensation represent two distinct, yet profoundly interconnected, quantum phenomena that emerge under ultra‐low temperature conditions. In superfluid helium, the ...

In the quantum world, waves can act like particles and particles like waves, interfering like overlapping ripples in a pond. Now, physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that ...

Multielectron bubbles (MEBs) in superfluid helium represent a unique quantum system in which electrons are confined to a thin layer on the inner surface of a bubble-like cavity. This platform offers ...

Researchers have discovered how superfluid helium 3He would feel if you could put your hand into it. The interface between the exotic world of quantum physics and classical physics of the human ...

Physicists at Columbia University in the US say they may have found evidence for a phenomenon in which a superfluid suddenly stops flowing inside a solid-state material. If confirmed, the finding – ...

University of California, Berkeley, physicists can now tune in to and hear normally inaudible quantum vibrations, called quantum whistles, enabling them to build very sensitive detectors of rotation ...

Physicists at the University of British Columbia sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide in order to control and study their rotation ...