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Superfluid Gyrometers

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Flexible-wall Helmholtz resonators immersed in superfluids with submicronic apertures and a large parallel channel acting as a pick-up loop have been demonstrated to act as sensitive and stable rotation sensors. Highly sensitive gyrometers are in need to make progress in geodesics and in the acceptation of general relativistic frames of reference. We present an overview of the current research and of the prospective developments.

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    O. Avenel & Yu. Mukharsky

  2. CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Ba HELP t. 510, 91405, Orsay (, France)

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Avenel, O., Mukharsky, Y. & Varoquaux, E. Superfluid Gyrometers. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 135, 745–772 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOLT.0000029517.55783.91

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