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Condensed-matter physics: A superfluid is born

Henk T. C. Stoof1

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For most of its existence, a superfluid droplet leads an essentially innocuous, classical life. But intense scrutiny reveals that the birth of such droplets is a turbulent and unpredictable quantum affair.

Phase transitions occur everywhere in nature. They can happen on a grand, cosmic scale: our Universe is thought to have gone through several phase transitions in the first second after the Big Bang.

  1. Henk T. C. Stoof is at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, the Netherlands.
    Email: h.t.c.stoof@phys.uu.nl

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