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P3.34

Effects of a magnetic field on vortex states in superfluid

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He-B

Kenichi Kasamatsu(1), Ryota Mizuno(2), Utkan G¨ung¨ord¨u(3), Tetsuo Ohmi(1),

and Mikio Nakahara(1)

1) Department of Physics, Kindai University, Higashi-Osaka, 577-8502, Japan

2) Department of Physics, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka,

Osaka, 560-0043, Japan

3) Department of Physics and Astronomy and Nebraska Center for Materials

and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA

Superfluid

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He-B possesses three locally stable vortex structures known as

a normal-core vortex (o-vortex), an A-phase-core vortex (v-vortex), and a

double-core vortex (d-vortex). In this work, we study the effects of a magnetic

field on these vortex structures by solving the two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau

equation. We find that the energetic stability of the v-vortex and d-vortex states

exhibits nontrivial dependance on the magnitude of the magnetic field as well as

its direction, while the o-vortex has the highest free energy among three vortices

for any situations we analyzed.

P3.35

Dramatic effect of superfluidity on the collapse of He4 vapor bubbles

Qu An, Trimeche Azer, Jacquier Philippe, Grucker Jules

Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-PSL Research University, CNRS,

UPMC-Sorbonne-Universit´es, Coll´ege de France, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris,

France

The lifetime of cavitation bubbles produced by an acoustic wave focused in

liquid helium-4 is investigated. This lifetime is found to be different by orders of

magnitude depending on whether the liquid is superfluid or not. We show that if

the liquid is in the superfluid state, the bubble lifetime is well explained by a

purely mechanical model, corresponding to the so-called Rayleigh regime. In the

normal state, the Rayleigh-Plesset regime applies, in which heat diffusion plays a

crucial role and dramatically increases the bubble lifetime.

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