MIT records heat "sloshing" in superfluid.
Heat scatters in most materials, fading hotspots as it warms. Rarely, it behaves like a wave—physicists call it "second sound."
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Heat scatters in most materials, fading hotspots as it warms. Rarely, it behaves like a wave—physicists call it "second sound."
For the first time, MIT physicists have captured direct images of “second sound,” the movement of heat sloshing back and forth within a superfluid. The results will expand scientists’ understanding of heat flow in superconductors and neutron stars.
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