Dissipative dynamics of superfluid vortices at nonzero temperatures.

Autor: Berloff NG; Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK., Youd AJ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2007 Oct 05; Vol. 99 (14), pp. 145301. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 Oct 05.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.145301
Abstrakt: We consider the evolution and dissipation of vortex rings in a condensate at nonzero temperatures in the context of the classical field approximation, based on the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The temperature in such a system is fully determined by the total number density and the number density of the condensate. The collisions with noncondensed particles reduce the radius of a vortex ring until it completely disappears. We obtain a universal decay law for a vortex line length and relate it to mutual friction coefficients in the fundamental equation of vortex motion in superfluids.
Databáze: MEDLINE