Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through arrays of nanopores

Details Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through arrays of nanopores Phase-slip avalanches in the superflow of $^4$He through arrays of nanopores

2006-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606560v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175301 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.175301

Recent experiments by Sato et al. [1] have explored the dynamics of $^4$He superflow through an array of nanopores. These experiments have found that, as the temperature is lowered, phase-slippage in the pores changes its character, from synchronous to asynchronous. Inspired by these experiments, we construct a model to address the characteristics of phase-slippage in superflow through nanopore arrays. We focus on the low-temperature regime, in which the current-phase relation for a single pore is linear, and thermal fluctuations may be neglected. Our model incorporates two basic ingredients: (1) each pore has its own random value of critical velocity (due, e.g., to atomic-scale imperfections), and (2) an effective inter-pore coupling, mediated through the bulk superfluid. The inter-pore coupling tends to cause neighbours of a pore that has already phase-slipped also to phase-slip; this process may cascade, creating an avalanche of synchronously slipping phases. As the temperature is lowered, the distribution of critical velocities is expected to effectively broaden, owing to the reduction in the superfluid healing length, leading to a loss of synchronicity in phase-slippage. Furthermore, we find that competition between the strength of the disorder in the critical velocities and the strength of the inter-pore interaction leads to a phase transition between non-avalanching and avalanching regimes of phase-slippage. [1] Sato, Y., Hoskinson, E. Packard, R. E. cond-mat/0605660.

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