Superfluidity of Grain Boundaries in Solid Helium-4

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2007-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702159v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135301 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.135301

By large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations we show that grain boundaries in Helium-4 crystals are generically superfluid at low temperature, with a transition temperature of the order of ~0.5K at the melting pressure; insulating grain boundaries are found only for special orientations of the grains. We also find that close vicinity to the melting line is not a necessary condition for superfluid grain boundaries, and a grain boundary in direct contact with the superfluid liquid at the melting curve is found to be mechanically stable and the grain boundary superfluidity observed by Sasaki et al. [Science 313, 1098 (2006)] is not just a crack filled with superfluid.

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