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Wind blowing over an ultracold sea

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Published December 17, 2010
The interface between two Bose-Einstein condensates may provide new physical insights into fluid dynamics.
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Nearly perfect fluidity

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Thomas Schäfer, Physics 2, 88 (2009) – Published October 26, 2009
Is there a fundamental lower bound on viscosity? To answer this question, we can look at the coldest and hottest fluids that laboratories are able to produce.
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The turbulent matter field of ultracold atoms

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Natalia Berloff and Boris V. Svistunov, Physics 2, 61 (2009) – Published July 20, 2009
Chaotic matter waves formed by perturbing a Bose-Einstein condensate may provide a valuable laboratory setting for understanding many different kinds of quantum-fluid turbulence.