The concept of quantum wave turbulence, which describes how wave-like motion transfers energy between macroscopic and microscopic length scales, is examined by an international team of researchers in a recent study published in Nature Physics. The study also addresses a long-standing theoretical prediction regarding energy dissipation at microscopic scales.The study was conducted in the low temperature refrigerator at Aalto University’s Low Temperature Laboratory. (Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University).For the study, the researchers used an ultra-low temperature refrigerator at the Low Temperature Laboratory at Aalto University to examine the turbulence energy of a Helium-3 isotope. They discovered energy is pushed to smaller and smaller scales to a point where energy is dissipated once it reaches a certain scale.