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First-sound rarefaction and compression waves in superfluid He-II

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The evolution of the form of first-sound waves, excited in superfluid He-II by a pulsed heater, with increasing power Q of the perturbing heat pulse is investigated. In liquid compressed to 13.3 atm, a first-sound rarefaction wave (wave of heating) is observed, which transforms into a compression wave and then into a compression shock wave as Q increases, i.e., the change in the conditions of heat transfer at a solid-He-II interface can be judged according to the change in the form of the sound wave. It follows from our measurements that in He-II compression waves are excited at pressures P⩾1 atm primarily as a result of the thermal expansion of a normal He-I liquid layer arising at the He-II-heater interface for power Q above a critical level.

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  1. Institute of Solid-State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia

    V. B. Efimov, G. V. Kolmakov, E. V. Lebedeva, L. P. Mezhov-Deglin & A. B. Trusov

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  1. V. B. Efimov
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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 69, No. 10, 716–720 (25 May 1999)

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Efimov, V.B., Kolmakov, G.V., Lebedeva, E.V. et al. First-sound rarefaction and compression waves in superfluid He-II. Jetp Lett. 69, 767–771 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.568088

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