Nanodroplet Illustration (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nanodroplet Illustration

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This is an illustration of analysis of superfluid helium nanodroplets. Droplets are emitted via a cooled nozzle (upper right) and probed with x-ray from the free-electron laser. The multicolored pattern (upper left) represents a diffraction pattern that reveals the shape of a droplet and the presence of quantum vortices such as those represented in the turquoise circle with swirls (bottom center).

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Felix P. Sturm and Daniel S. Slaughter, Berkeley Lab.

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