Liquid hydrogen turns superfluid

Superfluid liquid hydrogen?

Recent work by Peter Toennies’ group in Göttingen has revealed convincing evidence for superfluidity in liquid hydrogen – thus adding a third liquid to the two, liquid He and liquid He, in which superfluididy is already known. Superfluids are numbered among the most peculiar and counter-intuitive of all materials. They have no viscosity at all. Thus, an object travelling in a pure superfluid mo...

Hydrogen evolution at liquid-liquid interfaces.

Blowing bubbles: Hydrogen evolution by proton reduction with [(C(5)Me(5))(2)Fe] occurs at a soft interface between water and 1,2-dichloroethane (DCE). The reaction proceeds by proton transfer assisted by [(C(5)Me(5))(2)Fe] across the water-DCE interface with subsequent proton reduction in DCE. The interface essentially acts as a proton pump, allowing hydrogen evolution by directly using the aqu...

Spin-polarized hydrogen adsorbed on the surface of superfluid 4He.

The experimental realization of a thin layer of spin-polarized hydrogen H↓ adsorbed on top of the surface of superfluid (4)He provides one of the best examples of a stable, nearly two-dimensional (2D) quantum Bose gas. We report a theoretical study of this system using quantum Monte Carlo methods in the limit of zero temperature. Using the full Hamiltonian of the system, composed of a superflui...

Fermi – liquid theory of superfluid asymmetric nuclear matter

Influence of asymmetry on superfluidity of nuclear matter with triplet–singlet pairing of nucleons (in spin and isospin spaces) is considered within the framework of a Fermi–liquid theory. Solutions of self–consistent equations for the critical temperature and the energy gap at T = 0 are obtained with the use of Skyrme effective nucleon interaction. It is shown, that if the chemical potentials ...

Modelling of liquid hydrogen spills