Generally, when superconductors undergo phase transition, superfluid stiffness decreases continuously and smoothly. However, the researchers observed something unusual when they examined amorphous ...

Phase MSF: composite vortex liquid, which is a non-superconducting metallic superfluid state. The transition from SSF to MSF is a superconductor–superfluid transition, and distinguishes LMH from ...

Phase transitions are dramatic phenomena: water freezes into ice, atomic spins spontaneously align in a magnet, and liquid helium becomes superfluid.

This causes the lowest band of the lattice – corresponding to its Mott insulator phase – to mix with first excited band – which hosts its superfluid phase. Depending on the shaking parameters, the ...

Switching on a superfluid Exotic phase transitions unlock pathways to future, superfluid-based technologies Date: September 23, 2021 Source: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy ...

This phase, theoretically predicted in 1972, had only been observed in helium and ultracold atomic gases until now, and never in molecules. The work could give scientists a better understanding of ...

A vortex in a superfluid is an inherently topological object -- if you trace a complete loop around the vortex core, the quantum-mechanical phase of the wavefunction increases by a multiple of 2π.

These are phase transitions akin to water turning from a solid into a liquid or a gas, but under much more-extreme conditions. [Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth] Phase transitions cause symmetry to break.

Using an exotic quantum superfluid that originates in a two-dimensional atomic gas, researchers are closing in on the phenomenon of superconductivity. The team is using this special gas as a model ...

But while these phase transitions are well understood in the case of water, much less is known about the dynamics when a system goes from being a normal fluid to a superfluid, which can flow with ...