The Equation of State for Cool Relativistic Two-Constituent Superfluid Dynamics
Abstract
The natural relativistic generalisation of Landau's two constituent superfluid theory can be formulated in terms of a Lagrangian that is given as a function of the entropy current 4-vector and the gradient of the superfluid phase scalar. It is shown that in the ``cool" regime, for which the entropy is attributable just to phonons (not rotons), the Lagrangian function is given by an expression of the form where represents the pressure as a function just of in the (isotropic) cold limit. The entropy current dependent contribution represents the generalised pressure of the (non-isotropic) phonon gas, which is obtained as the negative of the corresponding grand potential energy per unit volume, whose explicit form has a simple algebraic dependence on the sound or ``phonon" speed that is determined by the cold pressure function .
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9507058,
title = {The Equation of State for Cool Relativistic Two-Constituent Superfluid Dynamics},
author = {Brandon Carter and David Langlois},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9507058},
year = {2008}
}
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26 pages, RevTeX, no figures, published in Phys. Rev. D. 15 May 1995