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From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow

From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow

FromTheoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma


From Identical Particles to Frictionless Flow

FromTheoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

John Chalker discusses how the laws of quantum mechanics lead us from the microscopic world to macroscopic phenomena. The notion that atoms of a given isotope are indistinguishable has profound consequences in the quantum world. For liquids made of identical bosons, indistinguishability forces the particles into a quantum condensate at low temperature, where they all dance in perfect synchrony. Treated gently, such a condensate has no viscosity: once it is set in motion --say around a circular pipe -- flow will persist indefinitely (so long as the fluid is kept sufficiently cold!).
Released:
Nov 3, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (86)

Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics host a morning of Theoretical Physics roughly three times a year on a Saturday morning. The mornings consist of three talks pitched to explain an area of our research to an audience familiar with physics at about the second-year undergraduate level and are open to all Oxford Alumni. Topics include Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Plasma, Particle Accelerators and The Large Hadron Collider.