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Half-quantum votices and ordinary vortices in a rotating thin film superfluid $^3$He under a strong magnetic field are considered. It is shown that $2n+1$ half-quantum vortices interpolates between $n$ singular vortices and $n+1$ singular…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-26 Mikio Nakahara , Tetsuo Ohmi

We study the coupled dynamics of normal and superfluid components of the superfluid $^4$He in the channel considering the counterflow turbulence with laminar normal component. In particular, we calculated profiles of the normal velocity,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-21 Dmytro Khomenko , Pankaj Mishra , Anna Pomyalov

We present a diffusion Monte Carlo study of a single vortex in two-dimensional superfluid liquid $^4$He within the fixed node approximation. We use both the Feynman phase and an improved phase which includes backflow correlations to model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Giorgini , J. Boronat , J. Casulleras

Heat is carried in superfluid He-4 by the motion of the normal fluid$^{1}$, a counterflowing superfluid component serving to eliminate any net mass flow. It has been known for many years that above a critical heat current the superfluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-22 Wei Guo , Sidney B. Cahn , James A. Nikkel , William F. Vinen , Daniel N. McKinsey

Vortex flow remains laminar up to large Reynolds numbers (Re~1000) in a cylinder filled with 3He-B. This is inferred from NMR measurements and numerical vortex filament calculations where we study the spin up and spin down responses of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-23 V. B. Eltsov , R. de Graaf , P. J. Heikkinen , J. J. Hosio , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius , V. S. L'vov

We apply the coarse-grained Hall-Vinen-Bekarevich-Khalatnikov (HVBK) equations to model the statistically steady-state, turbulent, cylindrically symmetric radial counterflow generated by a moderately large heat flux from the surface of a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Yuri A. Sergeev , Carlo F. Barenghi

The energy spectrum of the superfluid turbulence without the normal fluid is studied numerically under the vortex filament model. Time evolution of the Taylor-Green vortex is calculated under the full nonlocal Biot-Savart law. It is shown…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsunehiko Araki , Makoto Tsubota , Sergey K. Nemirovskii

The general local, nondissipative equations of motion for a quantized vortex moving in an uncharged laboratory superfluid are derived from a relativistic, co-ordinate invariant framework, having vortices as its elementary objects in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer

We propose a Hamiltonian model that describes the interaction between a vortex line in superfluid $^{4}$He and the gas of elementary excitations. An equation of irreversible motion for the density operator of the vortex, regarded as a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 H. M. Cataldo , M. A. Despósito , E. S. Hernández , D. M. Jezek

Excitations in the form of quantized vortex rings are known to exist in superfluid $^{4}He$ at energies and momenta exceeding those of the Landau phonon-roton spectrum. They form a vortex branch of elementary excitations spectrum which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Eugene B. Kolomeisky

Observations of quantum turbulence in pure superfluid 4He in a rotating container are reported. New techniques of large-scale forcing (rotational oscillations of the cubic container) and detecting (monitoring ion transport along the axis of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-25 P. M. Walmsley , A. I. Golov

The longitudinal friction acting on a vortex line in superfluid $^4$He is investigated within a simple model based on the analogy between such vortex dynamics and that of the quantal Brownian motion of a charged point particle in a uniform…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 H. M. Cataldo , D. M. Jezek

We study the motion of a single helical vortex in an unbounded, inviscid, incompressible fluid. The vortex is an infinite tube whose centerline is a helix and whose cross section is a circle of small radius (compared to the radius of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-04 Oscar Velasco Fuentes

We present a numerical study, using the vortex filament model, of vortex tangles in a flow of pure superfluid $^4$He in the $T = 0$ limit through a channel of width $D = 1$ mm for various applied velocities $V$. The flat channel walls are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-02 Matthew J Doyle , Andrei I Golov , Paul M Walmsley , Andrew W Baggaley

Stability of a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in superfluid $^3$He has been discussed recently by Kawakami, Tsutsumi and Machida in Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 092506 (2009). We further extend this work here and consider the A$_2$ phase of superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Kondo , Tetsuo Ohmi , Mikio Nakahara , Takuto Kawakami , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Kazushige Machida

The experimental investigation of superfluid turbulence in 3He-B is generally not possible with the techniques which have been developed for 4He-II. We describe a new method by which a transient burst of turbulent vortex expansion can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Finne , S. Boldarev , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius

We measure the response of a rotating sample of superfluid $^3$He-B to spin-down to rest in the zero-temperature limit. Deviations from perfect cylindrical symmetry in the flow environment cause the initial response to become turbulent. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-22 J. T. Mäkinen , V. B. Eltsov

In a rotating two-phase sample of 3He-B and magnetic-field stabilized 3He-A the large difference in mutual friction dissipation at 0.20 Tc gives rise to unusual vortex flow responses. We use noninvasive NMR techniques to monitor spin down…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-20 P. M. Walmsley , V. B. Eltsov , P. J. Heikkinen , J. J. Hosio , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius

Vortices are pervasive in nature, representing the breakdown of laminar fluid flow and hence playing a key role in turbulence. The fluid rotation associated with a vortex can be parameterized by the circulation $\Gamma=\oint {\rm d}{\bf…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 N. G. Parker , B. Jackson , A. M. Martin , C. S. Adams

We present an analytical study of fluctuations of the Vortex Line Density (VLD) $<\delta \mathcal{L}(\omega) \delta \mathcal{L}(-\omega)>$ in turbulent flows of quantum fluids. Two cases are considered. The first one is the counterflowing…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Sergey K. Nemirovskii