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Pis'ma v Zhurnal Èksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2003, Volume 78, Issue 9, Pages 1021–1025
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NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
Classical and quantum regimes of the superfluid turbulence
G. E. Volovikab a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
b L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
We argue that turbulence in superfluids is governed by two dimensionless parameters. One of them is the intrinsic parameter $q$ which characterizes the friction forces acting on a vortex moving with respect to the heat bath, with $q^{-1}$ playing the same role as the Reynolds number ${\rm Re}=UR/\nu$ in classical hydrodynamics. It marks the transition between the «laminar» and turbulent regimes of vortex dynamics. The developed turbulence described by Kolmogorov cascade occurs when ${\rm Re}\gg 1$ in classical hydrodynamics, and $q\ll 1$ in the superfluid hydrodynamics. Another parameter of the superfluid turbulence is the superfluid Reynolds number ${\rm Re}_s=UR/\kappa$, which contains the circulation quantum $\kappa$ characterizing quantized vorticity in superfluids. This parameter may regulate the crossover or transition between two classes of superfluid turbulence: (i) the classical regime of Kolmogorov cascade where vortices are locally polarized and the quantization of vorticity is not important; (ii) the quantum Vinen turbulence whose properties are determined by the quantization of vorticity. The phase diagram of the dynamical vortex states is suggested.
Received: 06.10.2003
Citation:
G. E. Volovik, “Classical and quantum regimes of the superfluid turbulence”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 78:9 (2003), 1021–1025; JETP Letters, 78:9 (2003), 533–537
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