superfluidity

Noun

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superfluidity (usually uncountable, plural superfluidities)

(physics) The frictionless flow that is characteristic of a fluid with zero viscosity, especially liquid helium at temperatures near absolute zero.

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There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments. David Lee

At low temperature fermions show superfluidity for uncharged particles and superconductivity for charged particles. Source: Internet

At the other limit, the fermions (most notably superconducting electrons) form Cooper pairs which also exhibit superfluidity. Source: Internet

However, quantum teleportation of particles has been theorized to also be possible, and to perhaps be an explanation for the teleportation-like effects seen in superconductivity and superfluidity. Source: Internet

Helium-4 atoms are bosons, and their superfluidity can be understood in terms of the Bose–Einstein statistics that they obey. Source: Internet

I.M. Khalatnikov, An introduction to the theory of superfluidity (W. Source: Internet

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