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In this chapter, we address another issue related to superfluidity: the existence of a dissipationless flow induced by the motion of a macroscopic object in a superfluid. The nucleation of vortices corresponds to the breakdown of this dissipationless phenomenon.
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(2006). Superfluid Flow Around an Obstacle. In: Vortices in Bose—Einstein Condensates. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 67. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4492-X_7
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