Nature Communications (May 2017)

Observation of dynamic atom-atom correlation in liquid helium in real space

  • W. Dmowski,
  • S. O. Diallo,
  • K. Lokshin,
  • G. Ehlers,
  • G. Ferré,
  • J. Boronat,
  • T. Egami

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15294
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Liquid helium can be treated as an ideal gas or a condensed liquid and displays intriguing features like Bose–Einstein condensation. Here the authors show that roton excitation reveals information on real space dynamic atom-atom correlations in superfluid helium, which could be used to benchmark models.