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Roton energy gap and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Other Condensed Matter 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

We study elementary excitations in superfluid helium-4 employing an approach based on the spontaneous symmetry breaking. In particular, we calculate the roton energy gap at zero temperature Δ(0)\Delta (0). The relation that we have derived is Δ(0)/kBTλ=4\Delta (0) / k_B T_\lambda = 4. The theoretical value of Δ(0)/kB\Delta (0)/k_B is 8.707 K, which is significantly close to the experimental value of 8.712 K. The deviation between the theoretical and experimental values is less than 0.1%.

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@article{arxiv.0911.1599,
  title  = {Roton energy gap and spontaneous symmetry breaking},
  author = {Junpei Harada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1599},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures