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The Equation of State for Cool Relativistic Two-Constituent Superfluid Dynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The natural relativistic generalisation of Landau's two constituent superfluid theory can be formulated in terms of a Lagrangian LL that is given as a function of the entropy current 4-vector sρs^\rho and the gradient φ\nabla\varphi 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 L(s,φ)L(\vec s, \nabla\varphi) is given by an expression of the form L=P3ψL=P-3\psi where PP represents the pressure as a function just of φ\nabla\varphi in the (isotropic) cold limit. The entropy current dependent contribution ψ\psi 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 cPc_P that is determined by the cold pressure function PP.

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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}
}

Comments

26 pages, RevTeX, no figures, published in Phys. Rev. D. 15 May 1995