superfluidity
Britishnoun
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In 1938, the physicist László Tisza proposed a two-fluid model for superfluidity -- that a superfluid is actually a mixture of some normal, viscous fluid and a friction-free superfluid.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
On the same day Onnes discovered both the phase transition to a state of superconductivity in mercury and the phase transition to the state of superfluidity in helium.
From Scientific American • Jul. 27, 2023
The science that brought us superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetic memory, liquid-crystal displays and more was once known as solid-state physics — better known since the 1970s as condensed-matter physics.
From Nature • Sep. 17, 2018
“If you were to watch me by day, you would see me sitting at my desk solving Schrödinger’s equation...exactly like my colleagues,” says Sir Anthony Leggett, a Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in superfluidity.
From New York Times • May 8, 2018
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist, Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2011
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