Nucleation of vortices by rapid thermal quench
Superconductivity
2016-08-31 v1
Abstract
We show that vortex nucleation in superfluid He by rapid thermal quench in the presence of superflow is dominated by a transverse instability of the moving normal-superfluid interface. Exact expressions for the instability threshold as a function of supercurrent density and the front velocity are found. The results are verified by numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equation.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9905286,
title = {Nucleation of vortices by rapid thermal quench},
author = {I. S. Aranson and N. B. Kopnin and V. M. Vinokur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9905286},
year = {2016}
}
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4 Pages, 4 Figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett