Characterization of reconnecting vortices in superfluid helium

Details Characterization of reconnecting vortices in superfluid helium Characterization of reconnecting vortices in superfluid helium

2008-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2872v1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, 13707-13710, (2008).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

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10.1073/pnas.0806002105

When two vortices cross, each of them breaks into two parts and exchanges part of itself for part of the other. This process, called vortex reconnection, occurs in classical as well as superfluids, and in magnetized plasmas and superconductors. We present the first experimental observations of reconnection between quantized vortices in superfluid helium. We do so by imaging micron-sized solid hydrogen particles trapped on quantized vortex cores (Bewley GP, Lathrop DP, Sreenivasan KR, 2006, Nature, 441:588), and by inferring the occurrence of reconnection from the motions of groups of recoiling particles. We show the distance separating particles on the just-reconnected vortex lines grows as a power law in time. The average value of the scaling exponent is approximately 1/2, consistent with the scale-invariant evolution of the vortices.

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