Low-Temperature Physics

Science is often a journey to the limits of the feasible and ascertainable. In low-temperature physics this journey strives towards absolute zero. When Louis Cailletet on December 2nd, 1877, realized a major step in terms of the production of low temperatures, namely the first liquefaction of oxygen, he could hardly imagine the wealth of exciting physical phenomena that would bediscoveredinthisfield. Despitetheanticipation fromeverydayexperience, which generally equates cold with discomfort...