Quantum plasticity and dislocation-induced supersolidity

Details Quantum plasticity and dislocation-induced supersolidity Quantum plasticity and dislocation-induced supersolidity

2007-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3087v4

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Longer revised version with more detailed discussion, submitted to EPJB

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.crhy.2008.11.001

We suggest that below a certain temperature T_k, the free energy for the creation of kinks-antikinks pairs in the dislocation network of solid He4 becomes negative. The underlying physical mechanism is the related liberation of vacancies which initiate Feynman's permutation cycles in the bulk. Consequently, dislocations should wander and sweep an increasingly larger volume at low temperatures. This phenomenon should lead both to a stiffening of the solid below T_k and to the appearance of a non zero superfluid fraction at a second temperature T_c < T_k.

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