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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

Quantized vortex dynamics in superfluid $^4$He (He~II) are widely regarded as well established: circulation is quantized in units of $\kappa=h/m_4$, vortices carrying more than one quantum are expected to split into singly quantized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-06 Yiming Xing , Yousef Alihosseini , Sosuke Inui , Wei Guo

At a very rapid superfluid transition in $^3$He, follows after a reaction with single neutron, the creation of topological defects (vortices) has recently been demonstrated in accordance with the Kibble-Zurek scenario for the cosmological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu. M. Bunkov , O. D. Timofeevskaya

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

Predictions and discoveries of new phases of superfluid $^3$He in confined geometries, as well as novel topological excitations confined to surfaces and edges of near a bounding surface of $^3$He, are driving the fields of superfluid $^3$He…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-19 J. J. Wiman , J. A. Sauls

Core structures of a single vortex in A-like and B-like phases of superfluid 3He in uniaxially compressed and stretched aerogels are studied by numerically solving Ginzburg-Landau equations derived microscopically. It is found that,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Kazushi Aoyama , Ryusuke Ikeda

We apply the Halperin-Mazenco formalism within the Gross-Pitaevskii theory to characterise the kinematics and nucleation of quantum vortices in a two-dimensional stirred Bose Einstein condensate. We introduce a smooth defect density field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-27 Jonas Rønning , Luiza Angheluta

Motivated by the study of cosmological phase transitions, our understanding of the formation of topological defects during spontaneous symmetry-breaking and the associated non-equilibrium field theory has recently changed. Experiments have…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. J. Gill , T. W. B. Kibble

A Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms is a superfluid and thus responds to rotation of its container by the nucleation of quantized vortices. If the trapping potential is su ciently strong, there is no theoretical limit to the rotation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-01 Michele Correggi , Florian Pinsker , Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

The basic physics of nucleation in solid \hl{single-crystal} nanoparticles is revealed by a phase-field theory that includes surface energy, chemical reactions and coherency strain. In contrast to binary fluids, which form arbitrary contact…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-17 Daniel A. Cogswell , Martin Z. Bazant

We propose and numerically validate an experimentally feasible on-demand protocol for the nucleation and manipulation of stable quantum vortex rings in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. The method relies on sweeping a laser-sheet barrier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-11 Giorgia Iori , Klejdja Xhani , Woo Jin Kwon , Davide Emilio Galli , Luca Galantucci

Nucleation of vortices in rotating superfluid by spin-up and rapid thermal quench is discussed in the framework of the time-dependent Ginzburg--Landau equation (TDGLE). An analysis of the instability in inhomogeneous rotationally-invariant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Aranson , Victor Steinberg

The problem of critical velocities in superfluids, that is the comprehension of superfluidity breakdown by flow, has been long standing. One difficulty stems from the existence of several breakdown mechanisms. A major advance has come from…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Varoquaux

We have investigated the structure of macroscopic suction flows in superfluid $^4$He. In this study, we primarily analyze the structure of the quantized vortex bundle that appears to play an important role in such systems. Our study is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-24 Sosuke Inui , Tomo Nakagawa , Makoto Tsubota

Like many quantum fluids, superfluid helium-4 (He II) can be considered as a mixture of two miscible fluid components: an inviscid superfluid and a viscous normal fluid consisting of thermal quasiparticles [1]. A mutual friction between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-04 Yuan Tang , Wei Guo , Hiromichi Kobayashi , Satoshi Yui , Makoto Tsubota , Toshiaki Kanai

We give a simple unified theory of vortex nucleation and vortex lattice formation which is valid from the initiation process up to the final stabilization of the lattice. We treat the growth of vortex lattices from a rotating thermal cloud,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Penckwitt , R. J. Ballagh , C. W. Gardiner

The symmetry-breaking first-order phase transition between superfluid phases $^3$He-A and $^3$He-B can be triggered extrinsically by ionising radiation or heterogeneous nucleation arising from the details of the sample cell construction.…

Rapid new developments have occurred in superfluid hydrodynamics since the discovery of a host of unusual phenomena which arise from the diverse structure and dynamics of quantized vortices in 3He superfluids. These have been studied in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-28 A. P. Finne , V. B. Eltsov , R. Hanninen , N. B. Kopnin , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , M. Tsubota , G. E. Volovik

The dynamics of quantized vortices in rotating $^3$He-B is investigated in the low density (single-vortex) regime as a function of temperature. An abrupt transition is observed at $0.5 T_{\rm c}$. Above this temperature the number of vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Finne , V. B. Eltsov , G. Eska , R. Hanninen , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , E. V. Thuneberg , M. Tsubota

We have theoretically investigated the structure of spinning self-bound droplets made of $^{41}$K-$^{87}$Rb Bose mixture by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation including beyond-mean-field correction in the Lee-Huang-Yang form. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-13 Matteo Caldara , Francesco Ancilotto