a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 02150, Espoo, Finland
b Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 117334, Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract:
Vortex-sheet growth is considered. Broken symmetry bifurcations are found in the growth process. The collective elasticity theory for a well-developed vortex sheet is presented, which is similar to that of smectic liquid crystals. The bifurcations in the limit of a much folded vortex sheet correspond to the Helfrich instability in smectics and cholesterics.