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Nature Physics 3, 13 - 14 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys498
Nonlinear optics: Shocking superfluids
Lene Vestergaard Hau1
- 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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