Doubly quantized vorticity and other NMR experiments on rotating 3He superfluids
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2001-04-06
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This doctoral thesis consists of experimental studies on rotating superfluid helium-3 at millikelvin temperatures. Superfluid 3He provides an example of ordered systems where quantum phenomena are visible on a macroscopic scale. The order parameter is described by a 3x3 complex matrix leading to different superfluid phases with different properties. The A and B phases support topologically different kinds of defects, most notably vortex lines. Vortex lines are most easily created and studied in uniform rotation. Because of quantum nature, the circulation around the vortices is quantized in units of κ0 = h/2m3. In superfluid 3He nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) provides a means to distinguish between different types of vortices and count them one by one. During the course of this work the sensitivity of the NMR spectrometer was improved by an order of magnitude, which enabled the direct measurement of the circulation of a vortex in the A phase that carries two circulation quanta (2κ0). Up to now the circulation of the known quantized vortex types in other quantum fluids, which include superfluid 4He, superconductors, and Bose-Einstein -condensates, has been singly quantized. Other NMR experiments reported in the thesis are: (1) The first qualitative measurements of vortex annihilation in the A and B phases of 3He. These measurements tell the lowest rotation velocity that stabilizes an array of vortex lines with a given number of vortices, and how it depends on the type of the defect. (2) Studies of vortex arrays with both singly and doubly quantized A phase vortex lines coexisting in the experimental container. 3He-A provides a unique system in which this kind of arrangement can be done. (3) In order to improve the vortex detection sensitivity in the B phase even further, the response of different nonlinear spin precession modes to superfluid-normal fluid counterflow was studied. A new mode, where the orbital angular momentum is oriented transverse to the external magnetic field, was found.Description
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quantum fluids, superfluid helium-3, quantized vortices, vortex arrays, vortex formation, vortex annihilation, nonlinear NMR, superfluid-superfluid interfaces, nuclear magnetic resonance, NMR spectrometer
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