Spin-up and nucleation of vortices in superfluid

Igor Aranson, Victor Steinberg

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Abstract

It is shown that the Ginzburg-Landau model corrected for the normal component describes adequately the spin-up problem for the superfluid liquid helium. An analysis of the Eckhaus instability in an inhomogeneous rotationally invariant system is presented. It has been found that the number of vortices which can be nucleated at the threshold of instability scales with the radius of the container as (Formula presented). The effect of excitation of the vortex loops by thermal fluctuations is considered, and the barrier and the nucleation rate are evaluated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)13072-13082
Number of pages11
JournalPhysical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume54
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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