Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of AB interface in superfluid He 3

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2019-02-11

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Physical Review B, Volume 99, issue 5, pp. 1-14

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The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability is well known in classical hydrodynamics where it explains the sudden emergence of interfacial surface waves as a function of the flow velocity parallel to the interface. It can be carried over to the inviscid two-fluid dynamics of superfluids, to describe the stability of the phase boundary separating two bulk phases of superfluid He3 in rotating flow when the boundary is localized with a magnetic-field gradient. The results from extensive measurements as a function of temperature and pressure confirm that in the superfluid the classic condition for stability is changed and that the magnetic polarization of the B phase at the phase boundary has to be taken into account, which yields the magnetic-field-dependent interfacial surface tension.

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Eltsov, V B, Gordeev, A & Krusius, M 2019, ' Kelvin-Helmholtz instability of AB interface in superfluid He 3 ', Physical Review B, vol. 99, no. 5, 054104, pp. 1-14 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054104