LOW-LYING SUPERFLUID STATES IN A ROTATING ANNULUS.
LOW-LYING SUPERFLUID STATES IN A ROTATING ANNULUS.
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旋转环带中的低洼超流体状态。
DOI:
10.1103/physrev.153.285
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发表时间:
1967
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A. Fetter
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作者:
A. Fetter
The low-lying states of rotating liquid He II in an annulus (R 1< r< R 2) are studied with the model of a classical inviscid fluid. An exact hydrodynamic solution is obtained with the method of images for a system consisting of rectilinear vortices with circulation κ combined with circulation Γ 1 about the inner cylinder. The energy and angular momentum are calculated, both for an arbitrary configuration of vortices and for the particular configuration of a symmetric ring of l vortices. If Γ 1 is treated as a variational parameter, the critical angular velocity Ω 0 for the appearance of vortices in a narrow annulus is (κ π d 2) ln (2 d π a), where d is the width of the annulus and a is the radius of the vortex core. For Ω< Ω 0, the equilibrium state is an irrotational (vortex-free) flow with quantized circulation n κ (n= 1, 2,⋯); these levels are equally spaced, and a given quantum state represents the lowest free energy only in a narrow angular-velocity interval of κ 2 π R 2, where R is the mean radius of the annulus. The maximum quantum number of irrotational circulation is 2 π R 2 Ω 0 κ= 2 (R d) 2 ln (2 d π a)≫ 1. For Ω> Ω 0, the vortices lie on the circumference of a ring midway between the walls, and the number of vortices increases rapidly with Ω. If Γ 1 is constrained to vanish identically, the critical angular velocity Ω c for the appearance of vortices in a narrow annulus is of order κ 2 π Rd; this is equivalent to Feynman's critical velocity v c= O (ℏ md) for singly quantized vortices with κ= h m. In the opposite limit of a wide annulus (R 1≪ R 2), the equilibrium state is shown to agree with Vinen's earlier calculations.