Superfluidity of grain boundaries in solid 4He |
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Authors: | Pollet L Boninsegni M Kuklov A B Prokof'ev N V Svistunov B V Troyer M |
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Institution: | Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. |
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Abstract: | By large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations we show that grain boundaries in 4He crystals are generically superfluid at low temperature, with a transition temperature of the order of approximately 0.5 K at the melting pressure; nonsuperfluid grain boundaries are found only for special orientations of the grains. We also find that close vicinity to the melting line is not a necessary condition for superfluid grain boundaries, and a grain boundary in direct contact with the superfluid liquid at the melting curve is found to be mechanically stable and the grain-boundary superfluidity observed by Sasaki et al. Science 313, 1098 (2006)10.1126/science.1130879] is not just a crack filled with superfluid. |
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