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Surviving the Transition

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Author(s)

Kristian Helmerson

Abstract

Observations of the birth of a superfluid have uncovered details of the microphysics of phase transitions. Whether these results can be used to model such trnsitions in the early Universe is an open question.
Citation
Nature
Volume
455
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

BEC, Kibble-Zurek, phase transition, superfluid, vortices
Condensed matter

Citation

Helmerson, K. (2008), Surviving the Transition, Nature, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=900230 (Accessed October 13, 2025)

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Created October 31, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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