{ "id": "1004.0445", "version": "v2", "published": "2010-04-03T15:19:50.000Z", "updated": "2010-06-18T04:47:42.000Z", "title": "Self-organization in He4 near the superfluid transition in heat flow and gravity", "authors": [ "Syunsuke Yabunaka", "Akira Onuki" ], "comment": "8 pages, 7 figures", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "cond-mat.quant-gas" ], "abstract": "We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of He4 slightly below the superffluid transition by integrating model F equations in three dimensions. When heated from above under gravity, a vortex tangle and a sheetlike phase slip are generated near the bottom plate. Then a self-organized superfluid containing high-density vortices and phase slips grows upward into an ordinary superfluid. The thermal resistance due to these defects produces a constant temperature gradient equal to the gradient of the pressure-dependent transition temperature $T_{\\lambda}(p)$. In this self-organized region, the temperature deviation $T-T_{\\lambda}(p)$ consists of a negative constant independent of the height and time-dependent fluctuations. Its time-average is calculated in good agreement with the experimental value (W.A. Moeur {\\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2421 (1997)).", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2010-06-18T04:47:42.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "67.25.dj", "05.70.Jk", "05.70.Ln", "67.25.dk" ], "keywords": [ "heat flow", "superfluid transition", "self-organization", "constant temperature gradient equal", "phase slips grows" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.82.024501", "journal": "Physical Review B", "year": 2010, "month": "Jul", "volume": 82, "number": 2, "pages": "024501" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010PhRvB..82b4501Y" } } }