Energy Loss from Reconnection with a Vortex Mesh

Details Energy Loss from Reconnection with a Vortex Mesh Energy Loss from Reconnection with a Vortex Mesh

2010-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/1010.0365v1

Phys. Rev. B 81, 174515 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174515

Experiments in superfluid 4He show that at low temperatures, energy dissipation from moving vortices is many orders of magnitude larger than expected from mutual friction. Here we investigate other mechanisms for energy loss by a computational study of a vortex that moves through and reconnects with a mesh of small vortices pinned to the container wall. We find that such reconnections enhance energy loss from the moving vortex by a factor of up to 100 beyond that with no mesh. The enhancement occurs through two different mechanisms, both involving the Kelvin oscillations generated along the vortex by the reconnections. At relatively high temperatures the Kelvin waves increase the vortex motion, leading to more energy loss through mutual friction. As the temperature decreases, the vortex oscillations generate additional reconnection events between the moving vortex and the wall, which decrease the energy of the moving vortex by transfering portions of its length to the pinned mesh on the wall.

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