Slowing Down Superfluid Helium (1 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Slowing Down Superfluid Helium (1 of 6)

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Layering of helium-4 adsorbed inside a nanopore of radius R = 1.2 nm as predicted by quantum simulations. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 15, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by P.-F. Duc at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, 'Critical flow and dissipation in a quasi-one-dimensional superfluid.'

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[Credit: Thure Cerling, University of Utah]

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