In a sense with this superfluid an object moving through it does not bump into a lot of atoms. Since all the atoms are in an identical state, this object in effect only runs through one atom.
LC On Monday, September 21, 2020 at 10:00:05 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > Researchers report in Nature Communications that they found when Helium-3 > is cooled to 0.0001K a wire moving through it feels no resistance even > when the wire is moving very rapidly. Lead author Dr. Samuli Autti said: > "*Superfluid > helium-3 feels like a vacuum to a rod moving through it, although it is a > relatively dense liquid. There is no resistance, none at all. I find this > very intriguing.*" > > The article says this discovery could aid in "*studies of Majorana > fermions aimed at producing components of, say, a quantum computer*". > Majorana fermions would be far less susceptible to quantum decoherence > than normal particles and thus allow the construction of Topological > Quantum Computers which, because of their much lower error rate, could be > scaled up to arbitrary size. > > dissipation due to bound fermions in the zero-temperature limit > <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18499-1> > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9f301a52-49e3-4df8-8118-4aadffbcca27n%40googlegroups.com.
