Simulating a Superfluid
Capsule-shaped, multi-colored image shows four, wavy longitudinal lines representing vortices in a simulated, spinning Bose Einstein condensate Computer simulation showing tornado-like vortices forming within a spinning Bose-Einstein condensate. BEC's are a new state of matter in which a collection of atoms behaves like one uniform "superatom." This NIST simulation helped confirm that BEC's are superfluids—a kind of liquid/gas that flows without friction.


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