Superfluids
"As we shall see, it is generally believed that the phenomenon of superfluidity is directly connected with the fact that the atoms of helium-4 obey Bose statistics, and that the lambda-transition is due to the onset of the peculiar phenomenon called Bose condensation." (Leggett, 1989) This is the phenomenon wherein the bosons (a type of particle) making up a substance merge into the lowest energy level, into a shared quantum state. In general, it refers to the tendancy of bosons to occupy the same state. This state, formed when a gas undergoes Bose-Einstein condensation, is called a “Bose-Einstein condensate.” The distinguishing feature of Bose-Einstein condensates is that the many parts that make up the ordered system not only behave as a whole, they become whole. Their identities merge or overlap in such a way that they lose their individuality entirely. A good analogy would be the many voices of a choir, merging to become 'one voice' at certain levels of harmony. The phenomenon of superfluidity was discovered in 1937 by a Russian physicist, Peter Kapitza, and then studied independently in 1938 by John Frank Allen, a British physicist, and his coworkers. I
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