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T1 - Producing and imaging quantum turbulence via pair-breaking in superfluid 3 He − B
AU - Noble, Theo
AU - Ahlstrom, Sean
AU - Bradley, Ian
AU - Guise, Edward Ashley
AU - Haley, Richard
AU - Kafanov, Sergey
AU - Pickett, George
AU - Poole, Malcolm
AU - Schanen, Roch
AU - Wilcox, Tom
AU - Woods, Andrew
AU - Zmeev, Dmitry
AU - Tsepelin, Viktor
N1 - © 2022 American Physical Society
PY - 2022/5/25
Y1 - 2022/5/25
N2 - Destroying superfluidity is a fundamental process and in fermionic superfluid such as He3-B it splits Cooper pairs into thermal excitations, quasiparticles. At the lowest temperatures, a gas of these quasiparticle excitations is tenuous enough for the propagation to be ballistic. We describe here an exploitation of the ballistic quasiparticles as the "photons"to observe the local destruction of superfluid He3-B by a mechanical resonator. We use a 5 by 5 pixel quasiparticle camera to image an emergence of quasiparticle excitations and a tangle of quantized vortices accompanying the pair-breaking. The detected quantum tangle is asymmetric around the mechanical resonator and is governed by the stability of vortices on the resonator surface. The vortex distribution shows that a conventional production of a quantum tangle via repetitive emission of vortex rings starts on the top surface of the generator and spreads around whole surface at high velocity when escaping vortex rings get retrapped by the moving resonator.
AB - Destroying superfluidity is a fundamental process and in fermionic superfluid such as He3-B it splits Cooper pairs into thermal excitations, quasiparticles. At the lowest temperatures, a gas of these quasiparticle excitations is tenuous enough for the propagation to be ballistic. We describe here an exploitation of the ballistic quasiparticles as the "photons"to observe the local destruction of superfluid He3-B by a mechanical resonator. We use a 5 by 5 pixel quasiparticle camera to image an emergence of quasiparticle excitations and a tangle of quantized vortices accompanying the pair-breaking. The detected quantum tangle is asymmetric around the mechanical resonator and is governed by the stability of vortices on the resonator surface. The vortex distribution shows that a conventional production of a quantum tangle via repetitive emission of vortex rings starts on the top surface of the generator and spreads around whole surface at high velocity when escaping vortex rings get retrapped by the moving resonator.
U2 - 10.1103/physrevb.105.174515
DO - 10.1103/physrevb.105.174515
M3 - Journal article
VL - 105
JO - Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 17
M1 - 174515
ER -