Precessing vortex motion and instability in a rotating column of superfluid 3He-B

Details Precessing vortex motion and instability in a rotating column of superfluid 3He-B Precessing vortex motion and instability in a rotating column of superfluid 3He-B

2007-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701647v2

J. Low Temp. Phys. 155, 98-113 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

revised version: 7.3 pages, 9 figures submitted to Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10909-009-9873-3

The flow of quantized vortex lines in superfluid 3He-B is laminar at high temperatures, but below 0.6 Tc turbulence becomes possible, owing to the rapidly decreasing mutual friction damping. In the turbulent regime a vortex evolving in applied flow may become unstable, create new vortices, and start turbulence. We monitor this single-vortex instability with NMR techniques in a rotating cylinder. Close to the onset temperature of turbulence, an oscillating component in NMR absorption has been observed, while the instability generates new vortices at a low rate ~ 1 vortex/s, before turbulence sets in. By comparison to numerical calculations, we associate the oscillations with spiral vortex motion, when evolving vortices expand to rectilinear lines.

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