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Further On the Fountain Effect in Superfluid Helium

Statistical Mechanics 2022-10-14 v1 Other Condensed Matter Classical Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

In the previous paper (Attard 2022d)on the fountain pressure in superfluid helium, it was shown that the experimentally confirmed expression of H. London (1939) was thermodynamically equivalent to equality of chemical potential. However this theoretical equivalence was not reflected in the experimental data. The problem has now been traced to errors in the enthalpy and entropy derived from the measured heat capacity by Donnelly and Barenghi (1998). In this paper the corrected thermodynamic data yields almost exact agreement between the two expressions and the measured fountain pressure. A physical explanation is given for energy minimization as the principle that drives the fountain effect and superfluid flow more generally.

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@article{arxiv.2210.06666,
  title  = {Further On the Fountain Effect in Superfluid Helium},
  author = {Phil Attard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.06666},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, 1 conclusion