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Surviving the Transition

Published

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

Keywords

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

Citation

Helmerson, K. (2008), Surviving the Transition, Nature, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=900230 (Accessed December 13, 2024)

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Created October 31, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017