[ExI] There is no speed limit in the superfluid universe

[Giulio Prisco]

Press release from Lancaster University:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/why-there-is-no-speed-limit-in-the-superfluid-universe


On 2020. Sep 21., Mon at 16:56, John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Researchers report in Nature Communications that they found when Helium-3
> is cooled to 0.0001K  a wire moving through it feels no resistance even
> when the wire is moving very rapidly. Lead author Dr. Samuli Autti said: "*Superfluid
> helium-3 feels like a vacuum to a rod moving through it, although it is a
> relatively dense liquid. There is no resistance, none at all. I find this
> very intriguing.*"
>
> The article says this discovery could aid in "*studies of Majorana
> fermions aimed at producing components of, say, a quantum computer*".
> Majorana fermions would be far less susceptible to quantum decoherence
> than normal particles and thus allow the construction of Topological
> Quantum Computers which, because of their much lower error rate, could be
> scaled up to arbitrary size.
>
> dissipation due to bound fermions in the zero-temperature limit
> <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18499-1>
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> John K Clark
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