Rotating Cryostat (IMAGE)

Aalto University

Rotating Cryostat

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Rotating cryostat with the superfluid helium near absolute zero (left); a novelty model of a vortex inside a container (right) similar to the one inside the cryostat. The actual vortices are perfectly even, whereas in the model, the vortex varies in thickness.

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Aalto University

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