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Generation, statistically steady state, and temporal decay of axially rotating thermal counterflow of superfluid $^4$He (He~II) in a square channel is probed using the second sound attenuation technique, measuring the density of quantized…

We perform numerical simulations of finite temperature quantum turbulence produced through thermal counterflow in superfluid $^4$He, using the vortex filament model. We investigate the effects of solid boundaries along one of the Cartesian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-10 Andrew W. Baggaley , Jason Laurie

We study a two-phase sample of superfluid 3He where vorticity exists in one phase (3He-A) but cannot penetrate across the interfacial boundary to a second coherent phase (3He-B). We calculate the bending of the vorticity into a surface…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Hänninen , R. Blaauwgeers , V. B. Eltsov , A. P. Finne , M. Krusius , E. V. Thuneberg , G. E. Volovik

In rotating 3He superfluids the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability of the AB interface has been found to follow the theoretical model above 0.4 Tc. A deviation from this dependence has been assumed possible at the lowest temperatures. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-15 V. B. Eltsov , J. J. Hosio , M. Krusius

Vortex rings self-propelling in superfluid 4He are shown to be driven unstable by a toroidal normal fluid flow. This instability has qualitative similarities with the Donnelly-Glaberson instability of Kelvin waves on a vortex filament…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-22 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

We discuss the general properties of periodic vortex arrangements in rotating superfluids. The different possible structures are classified according to the symmetry space-groups and the circulation number. We calculate numerically several…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 J. M. Karimaki , E. V. Thuneberg

We describe measurements of the decay of pure superfluid turbulence in superfluid 3He-B, in the low temperature regime where the normal fluid density is negligible. We follow the decay of the turbulence generated by a vibrating grid as…

Measurements of the order parameter texture of rotating superfluid 3He-B have been performed as a function of the applied azimuthal counterflow velocity down to temperatures of 0.2Tc. The results are compared to the hydrostatic theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 R. de Graaf , V. B. Eltsov , J. J. Hosio , P. J. Heikkinen , M. Krusius

We consider superfluid helium inside a container which rotates at constant angular velocity and investigate numerically the stability of the array of quantized vortices in the presence of an imposed axial counterflow. This problem was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-04-05 Makoto Tsubota , Tsunehiko Araki , Carlo F. Barenghi

Turbulent drag of an oscillating microsphere, that is levitating in superfluid $^4$He at mK temperatures, is unstable slightly above a critical velocity amplitude $v_c$. The lifetime $\tau$ of the turbulent state is determined by the number…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-17 Wilfried Schoepe

Superfluid $^3$He-B in the zero-temperature limit offers a unique means of studying quantum turbulence by the Andreev reflection of quasiparticle excitations by the vortex flow fields. We validate the experimental visualization of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-14 A. W. Baggaley , V. Tsepelin , C. F. Barenghi , S. N. Fisher , G. R. Pickett , Y. A. Sergeev , N. Suramlishvili

We investigated the vortex dynamics in the non-centrosymmetric superconductor Li_2Pt_3B in the temperature range 0.1 K - 2.8 K. Two different logarithmic creep regimes in the decay of the remanent magnetization from the Bean critical state…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-22 C. F. Miclea , A. C. Mota , M. Sigrist , F. Steglich , T. A. Sayles , B. J. Taylor , C. McElroy , M. B. Maple

We study the dynamical process of the vortex tangle development under a spherically symmetric thermal counterflow around a heat source submerged into a bulk superfluid 4He. We reveal a peculiar vortex dynamics that is unique to this…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-11 Sosuke Inui , Makoto Tsubota

Vortex lattices -- highly ordered arrays of vortices -- are known to arise in quantum systems such as type II superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. More recently, similar arrangements have been reported in classical rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Julián Amette Estrada , Alexandros Alexakis , Marc E. Brachet , Pablo D. Mininni

It is shown that instability of homogeneous precession is caused by combined effect of anisotropy of spin wave velocities and dipole interaction. In the principal order on the ratio of the Leggett frequency to the Larmor frequency the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-14 E. V. Surovtsev , I. A. Fomin

We use neutron absorption in rotating 3He-B to heat locally a 10 micrometer-size volume into normal phase. When the heated region cools back in microseconds, vortex lines are formed. We record with NMR the number of lines as a function of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. M. Ruutu , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius , Yu. G. Makhlin , B. Placais , G. E. Volovik

Pinning of superfluid vortices to magnetic flux tubes in the outer core of a neutron star supports a velocity difference of $\sim 10^5$ \cms\ between the neutron superfluid and the proton-electron fluid as the star spins down. Under the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bennett Link

Detailed study of torsional oscillator experiments under steady rotation up to 6.28 rad/sec is reported for a 4He superfluid monolayer film formed in 1 micrometer-pore diameter porous glass. We found a new dissipation peak with the height…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-10-04 M. Fukuda , M. K. Zalalutdinov , V. Kovacik , T. Minoguchi , T. Obata , M. Kubota , E. B. Sonin

We report hot-wire measurements performed in two very different, co- and counter-rotating flows, in normal and superfluid helium at 1.6 K, 2 K, and 2.3 K. As recently reported, the power spectrum of the hot-wire signal in superfluid flows…

A zero temperature superfluid is arguably the simplest system in which to study complex fluid dynamics, such as turbulence. We describe computer simulations of such turbulence and compare the results directly with recent experiments in…