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.
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Stoof, H. A superfluid is born. Nature 447, 390–391 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/447390a
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