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Measurements of circulation in superfluid 3He-B using a vibrating wire

  • J. C. Davis*
  • , R. Zieve
  • , J. Close
  • , R. E. Packard
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    We have measured fluid circulation in superfluid 3He-B. The apparatus consists of a straight vibrating wire which is mounted in a 3He cell on a rotating millikelvin cryostat operating at temperatures in the ballistic quasiparticle regime. Circulation around the wire is found to be stable only when it takes on values -h/2m3, 0, +h/2m3 where h is Planck's constant and m3 is the mass of the 3He atom.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)523-524
    Number of pages2
    JournalPhysica B: Physics of Condensed Matter
    Volume169
    Issue number1-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Feb 1991

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