1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Surprisingly, it can also become a <superfluid> even though each atom is a <fermion>! This is because of <Cooper pair> formation, just like in <superconductors>, but the transition happens at lower temperatures than <superfluid helium-4>, which is a <boson>.

https://aps.org/publications/apsnews/202110/history.cfm[]: October 1972: Publication of Discovery of Superfluid Helium-3 contains comments on the seminal paper and a graph which we must steal.


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 Tagged: Superfluid helium-3