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In one of the most celebrated examples of the theory of universal critical phenomena, the phase transition to the superfluid state of $^{4}$He belongs to the same three dimensional $mathrm{O}(2)$ universality class as the onset of ferromagnetism in a lattice of classical spins with $XY$ symmetry. Below the transition, the superfluid density $rho_s$ and superfluid velocity $v_s$ increase as power laws of temperature described by a universal critical exponent constrained to be equal by scale invariance. As the dimensionality is reduced towards one dimension (1D), it is expected that enhanced thermal and quantum fluctuations preclude long-range order, thereby inhibiting superfluidity. We have measured the flow rate of liquid helium and deduced its superfluid velocity in a capillary flow experiment occurring in single $30~$nm long nanopores with radii ranging down from 20~nm to 3~nm. As the pore size is reduced towards the 1D limit, we observe: {it i)} a suppression of the pressure dependence of the superfluid velocity; {it ii)} a temperature dependence of $v_{s}$ that surprisingly can be well-fitted by a powerlaw with a single exponent over a broad range of temperatures; and {it iii)} decreasing critical velocities as a function of radius for channel sizes below $R simeq 20$~nm, in stark contrast with what is observed in micron sized channels. We interpret these deviations from bulk behaviour as signaling the crossover to a quasi-1D state whereby the size of a critical topological defect is cut off by the channel radius.
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