Vortices and other topological defects in non-equilibrium phase transitions of superfluid He |
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Authors: | VB Eltsov R HänninenM Krusius |
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Institution: | Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, Box 15100, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland |
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Abstract: | Rapidly evolving non-equilibrium phenomena, associated with phase transitions from meta-stable states, provide examples of most complex dynamics. Condensed matter many-particle quantum systems, which are described in terms of a coherent quantum field, are a particularly useful environment for such studies. Among them, the 3He superfluids display the largest variety of topological defects of different dimensionality and structure, owing to the large degree of freedom in the rearrangement of their multi-component p-wave order parameter field. A few measurements exist which monitor the non-equilibrium phase transition dynamics and display defect formation. |
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Keywords: | Kibble&ndash Zurek mechanism Kelvin&ndash Helmholtz instability Double-quantum vortex Spin-mass vortex |
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