Superfluid motion and drag-force cancellation in a fluid of light

Superfluidity of light enables movement without friction or, in optical terms, diffraction. Here, Michel et al. report the detection of the transition to superfluidity in the flow of a fluid of light past an obstacle in a bulk nonlinear crystal and extract the drag force exerted by the fluid of ligh...

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Main Authors: Claire Michel, Omar Boughdad, Mathias Albert, Pierre-Élie Larré, Matthieu Bellec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04534-9