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Interpreting superfluid spin up through the response of the container

Quantum Gases 2015-06-03 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

A recipe is presented for interpreting non-invasively the transport processes at work during relaxation of a cylindrical, superfluid-filled vessel, after it is accelerated impulsively and then allowed to respond to the viscous torque exerted by the contained fluid. The recipe exploits a recently published analytic solution for Ekman pumping in a two-component superfluid, which treats the back-reaction self-consistently in arbitrary geometry for the first time. The applicability of the recipe to He II, 3He, 3He-4He mixtures and Bose-Einstein condensates is assessed, and the effects of turbulence discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1111.1057,
  title  = {Interpreting superfluid spin up through the response of the container},
  author = {Cornelis Anthony van Eysden and Andrew Melatos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1057},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures