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TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluctuations and correlations of pure quantum turbulence in superfluid He-3_B.
AU - Bradley, D. Ian
AU - Fisher, Shaun N.
AU - Guénault, A.M.
AU - Haley, Richard P.
AU - O'Sullivan, Samantha
AU - Pickett, George R.
AU - Tsepelin, Viktor
PY - 2008/8/8
Y1 - 2008/8/8
N2 - We describe the first measurements of line-density fluctuations and spatial correlations of quantum turbulence in superfluid He-3-B. All of the measurements are performed in the low-temperature regime, where the normal-fluid density is negligible. The quantum turbulence is generated by a vibrating grid. The vortex-line density is found to have large length-scale correlations, indicating large-scale collective motion of vortices. Furthermore, we find that the power spectrum of fluctuations versus frequency obeys a -5/3 power law which verifies recent speculations that this behavior is a generic feature of fully developed quantum turbulence, reminiscent of the Kolmogorov spectrum for velocity fluctuations in classical turbulence.
AB - We describe the first measurements of line-density fluctuations and spatial correlations of quantum turbulence in superfluid He-3-B. All of the measurements are performed in the low-temperature regime, where the normal-fluid density is negligible. The quantum turbulence is generated by a vibrating grid. The vortex-line density is found to have large length-scale correlations, indicating large-scale collective motion of vortices. Furthermore, we find that the power spectrum of fluctuations versus frequency obeys a -5/3 power law which verifies recent speculations that this behavior is a generic feature of fully developed quantum turbulence, reminiscent of the Kolmogorov spectrum for velocity fluctuations in classical turbulence.
KW - GRID TURBULENCE
KW - FINITE CHANNEL
KW - VELOCITY
KW - GENERATION
KW - FORCE
KW - MODEL
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.065302
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.065302
M3 - Journal article
VL - 101
SP - 065302
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 6
ER -