Critical Velocities for Roton and Super-Flow Quantum Turbulence in Liquid $^4$He
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2009-09-08 v1 Superconductivity
Abstract
Two different types of transitions of the superfluid He to quantum turbulence regimes are studied for geometry in the case when the influence of the normal fluid on superfluid flow is suppressed. It is shown that the roton mechanism of transition to quantum turbulence leads to a critical velocity satisfying the relation . In the super-flow mechanism, the transition to quantum turbulence arises when the "quantum Reynolds number" is about and the critical velocity depends on channel size as in agreement with the equations of motion for a superfluid component of the liquid He being disturbed by small fluctuations of the normal fluid.
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@article{arxiv.0909.1140,
title = {Critical Velocities for Roton and Super-Flow Quantum Turbulence in Liquid $^4$He},
author = {V. I. Kruglov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1140},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
It is submitted to Physical Review Letters