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Abstract
By injecting negative ions in superfluid 4He in the zero-temperature limit (T<or=0.5 K), we have generated tangles of quantized vortex line with negligible large-scale flow. For this quantum regime of superfluid turbulence, the vortex line length L was found to decay at late time t as L proportional to t{-1}, the prefactor being independent of the initial value of L. The corresponding effective kinematic viscosity is 0.1 kappa, where kappa is the circulation quantum. At T>0.7 K, a jet of ions generates quasiclassical tangles identical to those produced by mechanical means.Year: 2008 PMID: 18643594 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.245301
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161