1. Lene Vestergaard Hau is in the Department of Physics and in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. e-mail: hau@physics.harvard.edu

Abstract

How shock waves travel through a superfluid provides clues to understanding the deeper nature of Bose–Einstein condensation. An optical analogue that behaves as a pure superfluid could tell us what these clues mean.

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