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Boundary effects on helical textures in superfluid3He-A

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The effect of a boundary on magnetically induced helical textures in superfluid3He-A is studied for the dipole-locked Ginzburg-Landau regime. With increasing magnetic field, the pitch at the wall remains constant, but its value deep in the bulk changes as suggested by Vollhardt, Lin-Liu, and Maki. No unstable surface normal modes are found, so that the instability of the semiinfinite helical texture remains a bulk phenomenon.

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    Alexander L. Fetter

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This research was supported in part by the NSF through Grant No. DMR 78-25258.

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Fetter, A.L. Boundary effects on helical textures in superfluid3He-A. J Low Temp Phys 48, 435–443 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00681853

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