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Sub-barrier cavitation in liquid helium

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-12-19 v5

Abstract

In this paper, the tunneling mechanism of cavitation in liquid helium for 3He and 4He is considered on the basis of the Schr\"odinger-like equation. It is assumed that the pairwise interactions of helium atoms are determined by the Lennard-Jones potential. The kinetics of nucleation and the mechanism that limits the growth of cavitation bubbles in liquid helium are considered, taking into account their growth in a negative pressure field.

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@article{arxiv.2507.01910,
  title  = {Sub-barrier cavitation in liquid helium},
  author = {Mikhail Pekker and Mikhail N. Shneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01910},
  year   = {2025}
}
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