Vortex Trajectory in Superfluid (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Vortex Trajectory in Superfluid

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Viewed from the side, a computer simulation clearly shows the winding path that a vortex takes through a superfluid over time. Such a view was inaccessible in the original experiment that scientists sought to simulate.

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Peter Scherpelz

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