Looking back at superfluid helium
Statistical Mechanics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
A few years after the discovery of Bose Einstein condensation in several gases, it is interesting to look back at some properties of superfluid helium. After a short historical review, I comment shortly on boiling and evaporation, then on the role of rotons and vortices in the existence of a critical velocity in superfluid helium. I finally discuss the existence of a condensate in a liquid with strong interactions, and the pressure variation of its superfluid transition temperature.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0303561,
title = {Looking back at superfluid helium},
author = {Sebastien Balibar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0303561},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Conference "Bose Einstein Condensation", Institut henri Poincare, Paris, 29 march 2003