Evaporation of a packet of quantized vorticity
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
A recent experiment has confirmed the existence of quantized turbulence in superfluid He3-B and suggested that turbulence is inhomogenous and spreads away from the region around the vibrating wire where it is created. To interpret the experiment we study numerically the diffusion of a packet of quantized vortex lines which is initially confined inside a small region of space. We find that reconnections fragment the packet into a gas of small vortex loops which fly away. We determine the time scale of the process and find that it is in order of magnitude agreement with the experiment.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208327,
title = {Evaporation of a packet of quantized vorticity},
author = {C. F. Barenghi and D. C. Samuels},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208327},
year = {2009}
}
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figure 1a,b,c and d, figure2, figure 3