MIT physicists create new form of matter

MIT News Office: “CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT scien­tists have brought a super­cool end to a hea­ted race among phy­si­cists: They have become the first to create a new type of mat­ter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity.”

“In super­fluids, as well as in super­con­duc­tors, par­tic­les move in locks­tep. They form one big quantum-mechanical wave,” explai­ned Ket­terle. “Such a move­ment allows super­con­duc­tors to carry elec­tri­cal currents without resistance.”

For those who know not of superfluidity: 

Ans​wers​.com: Super­flui­dity is a phase of mat­ter cha­rac­te­ri­sed by the com­plete absence of vis­co­sity. Thus super­fluids, pla­ced in a clo­sed loop, can flow end­lessly without friction.