2009/01/12 by C. F. Barenghi, Carlo F. Barenghi, Yu. A. Sergeev +4
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superconducting Materials and Applications #cond-mat.other #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.79.024508
To appear in Phys Rev B
arxiv created 2009/01/12 · openalex publication_date 2009/01/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The vortex line density of turbulent superfluid 3He-B at very low temperature is deduced by detecting the shadow of ballistic quasiparticles, which are Andreev reflected by quantized vortices. Until now the measured total shadow has been interpreted as the sum of shadows arising from interactions of a single quasiparticle with a single vortex. By integrating numerically the quasiclassical Hamiltonian equations of motion of ballistic quasiparticles in the presence of nontrivial but relatively simple vortex systems (such as vortex-vortex and vortex-antivortex pairs and small clusters of vortices), we show that partial screening can take place, and the total shadow is not necessarily the sum of the shadows. We have also found that it is possible that, upon impinging on complex vortex configurations, quasiparticles experience multiple reflections, which can be classical, Andreev, or both.