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Shapes and vorticities of superfluid helium nanodroplets

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Gomez, Luis F., Ferguson, Ken R., Cryan, James P., Bacellar, Camila, Tanyag, Rico Mayro P., Jones, Curtis, Schorb, Sebastian, Anielski, Denis +36 more·2014·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.1252395
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X-raying superfluid helium droplets: When physicists rotate the superfluid 4 He, it develops a regular array of tiny whirlpools, called vortices. The same phenomenon should occur in helium droplets half a micrometer in size, but studying individual droplets is tricky. Gomez et al. used x-ray diffraction to deduce the shape of individual rotating droplets and image the resulting vortex patterns, which confirmed the superfluidity of the droplets. They found that superfluid droplets can host a surprising number of vortices and can rotate faster than normal droplets without disintegrating. Science , this issue p. 906

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Gomez, L. F., Ferguson, K. R., Cryan, J. P., Bacellar, C., Tanyag, R. M. P., Jones, C., Schorb, S., Anielski, D., Belkacem, A., Bernando, C., Boll, R., Bozek, J., Carron, S., Chen, G., Delmas, T., Englert, L., Epp, S. W., Erk, B., Foucar, L., Hartmann, R., Hexemer, A., Huth, M., Kwok, J., Leone, S. R., Ma, J. H. S., Maia, F. R. N. C., Malmerberg, E., Marchesini, S., Neumark, D. M., Poon, B., Prell, J., Rolles, D., Rudek, B., Rudenko, A., Seifrid, M., Siefermann, K. R., Sturm, F. P., Swiggers, M., Ullrich, J., Weise, F., Zwart, P., Bostedt, C., Gessner, O., & Vilesov, A. F.
Affiliations
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
  • Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (DE)
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DE)
  • Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (DE)
  • PNSensor (Germany) (DE)
  • Ultrafast X-ray Science Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Kansas State University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Bostedt, Christoph
  • Gessner, Oliver
  • Vilesov, Andrey F.
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Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2014-08-22
Volume
345
Issue
6199
Pages
906-909
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.1252395
OpenAlex
W2095381413
Cited by
230
References
38
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Desy publication database (The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1112391, DEAC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-76SF00515)
  • U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, Contract No. DE-AC02-05-CH11231, 76SF00515, DE–AC02–76SF00515, 05CH11231, No. DE-AC02-05-CH11231, DE AC02 05CH11231, AC02‐76SF00515, Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515, DE-AC02-)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-76SF00515)
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Division of Chemistry (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Basic Energy Sciences (DE-AC02, Contract No. DE-AC02-05-CH11231, 05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231., No. DE-AC02-05-CH11231, AC02–05CH11231, 76SF00515, AC02-76SF00515, DE-AC-02-76SF00515)
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (DE-AC02-05-CH11231, DEAC02−76SF00515, AC02‐76SF00515)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
Keywords
superfluid helium-4, helium nanodroplets, quantum hydrodynamics, quantized vortices, vortex lattice, vortex core, xenon clusters, droplet rotation, centrifugal deformation, droplet shape, single-shot imaging

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