Quantum turbulence in a propagating superfluid vortex front

We present experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies of a vortex front propagating into a region of vortex-free flow of rotating superfluid 3He-B. We show that the nature of the front changes from laminar through quasiclassical turbulent to quantum turbulent with decreasing temperature. Our e...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2007-12, Vol.99 (26), p.265301-265301
Hauptverfasser: Eltsov, V B, Golov, A I, de Graaf, R, Hänninen, R, Krusius, M, L'vov, V S, Solntsev, R E
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Zusammenfassung:We present experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies of a vortex front propagating into a region of vortex-free flow of rotating superfluid 3He-B. We show that the nature of the front changes from laminar through quasiclassical turbulent to quantum turbulent with decreasing temperature. Our experiment provides the first direct measurement of the dissipation rate in turbulent vortex dynamics of 3He-B and demonstrates that the dissipation becomes mutual-friction independent with decreasing temperature, and it is strongly suppressed when the Kelvin-wave cascade on vortex lines is predicted to be involved in the turbulent energy transfer to smaller length scales.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.265301