Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fluid, such as liquid helium, that flows with little or no friction at temperatures close to absolute zero.
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- noun physics A substance, such as
liquid helium , that exhibitssuperfluidity . - adjective Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting superfluidity.
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Examples
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As a consequence the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter has here not only two – as in the superconductors – but eighteen components and the superfluid is anisotropic; it can have different properties in different directions.
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This is the first demonstration of whistling in superfluid helium-4.
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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The pair formation that occurs in superfluid 3He differs from that which occurs between electrons in a superconductor
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 - Information for the Public 2003
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In addition, John Reppy and his students conducted extensive investigations of persistent currents in superfluid
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Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in superfluid 4He films.
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Leggett used to understand the frequency shifts in superfluid
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When a superfluid is set in rotation and the velocity of rotation exceeds a critical value, microscopic vortices appear.
Additional background material on the Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 1996
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Liquid helium can become superfluid, that is, its viscosity vanishes at low temperatures.
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Below the critical temperature, the pairs form everywhere in a material, and can then act in concert as a "superfluid" to carry electric current through it without resistance.
Nanoscale Imaging Shows Unexpected Behaviors in High-Temperature Superconductors | Impact Lab 2007
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It didn't boil, either; helium II is a "superfluid," so what evaporation there was had to take place evenly, all over the surface.
The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975
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