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superfluidity

British  
/ ˌsuːpəfluːˈɪdɪtɪ /

noun

  1. physics the state of being or property of becoming a superfluid

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This sequence ran counter to long-standing assumptions about how superfluidity works.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2026

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

This is the science that brought us superconductivity, superfluidity, magnetic memory, liquid-crystal displays and more.

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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