Pendulum in a Fermi liquid

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Feb 4;106(5):055301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.055301. Epub 2011 Feb 2.

Abstract

The Fermi-liquid theory formulated by Landau is a basic paradigm of the behavior of an interacting many-body system. We present a new application of this theory to calculate the "Landau force" on a macroscopic object. We show that immersing a pendulum in a Fermi liquid can increase its oscillation frequency, and evidence of this has been observed in mixtures of (3)He and (4)He.