TY - JOUR

T1 - Condensed state helium.

AU - McClintock, Peter V. E.

N1 - Review of "The Physics of Liquid and Solid Helium. Part II", edited by K.H. Bennemann and J.B. Ketterson, pp. 750, Wiley, New York and Ohichester, 1978.

PY - 1979/3/22

Y1 - 1979/3/22

N2 - The helium atom probably comes closer than anu other to the miniature "billiard ball" of classical kinetic theory. One might expect, therefore, that the properties of liquid and solid helium would be exceptionally simple and even perhaps, rather dull. The reality is far otherwise, thanks mainly to the profound influence of quantum statistics on a collection of these small, rigid spheres. It plays a quite unparalleled influence on a variety of physical phenomena some of which, such as bulk superfluidity are unique on earth (although they may, perhaps, also manifest themselves within the nucleonic fluids In the interiors of dense stars).

AB - The helium atom probably comes closer than anu other to the miniature "billiard ball" of classical kinetic theory. One might expect, therefore, that the properties of liquid and solid helium would be exceptionally simple and even perhaps, rather dull. The reality is far otherwise, thanks mainly to the profound influence of quantum statistics on a collection of these small, rigid spheres. It plays a quite unparalleled influence on a variety of physical phenomena some of which, such as bulk superfluidity are unique on earth (although they may, perhaps, also manifest themselves within the nucleonic fluids In the interiors of dense stars).

U2 - 10.1038/278378a0

DO - 10.1038/278378a0

M3 - Book/Film/Article review

VL - 278

SP - 378

EP - 378

JO - Nature

JF - Nature

IS - 5702

ER -