Skip to main content
Scientific American

December 1, 1994

1 min read

Trapped in the Light

Laser beams levitate droplets of superfluid helium

By Philip Yam

00

Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.

More by Philip Yam
Scientific American Magazine Vol 271 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Trapped in the Light” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 271 No. 6 (), p. 20
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1294-20a
View This Issue