| Literature DB >> 12857317 |
R Hänninen1, R Blaauwgeers, V B Eltsov, A P Finne, M Krusius, E V Thuneberg, G E Volovik.
Abstract
We study a two-phase sample of superfluid 3He where vorticity exists in one phase (3He-A) but cannot penetrate across the interfacial boundary to a second coherent phase (3He-B). We calculate the bending of the vorticity into a surface vortex sheet on the interface and solve the internal structure of this new type of vortex sheet. The compression of the vorticity from three to two dimensions enforces a structure which is made up of 1 / 2-quantum units, independently of the structure of the source vorticity in the bulk. These results are consistent with our NMR measurements.Year: 2003 PMID: 12857317 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.225301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161