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Turbulence Experiments in Superfluid 3He at Very Low Temperatures

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Vortices and Turbulence at Very Low Temperatures

Part of the book series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ((CISM,volume 501))

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Over the past few years, the experimental study of superfluid turbulence has made very significant advances following the discovery of turbulence in the B-phase of superfluid 3He. Experiments in superfluid 3He are far more cryogenically challenging than in 4He since the temperatures required are of order a thousand times lower. However, 3He has some advantages. The main advantages come from the ease of vortex detection at low temperatures. In particular, vortices in 3He have a large cross-section for Andreev Scattering quasiparticle excitations. This property along with ultra sensitive quasiparticle detection techniques, allows superfluid turbulence experiments even in the very low temperature limit. In this chapter, we first give a brief background to the cryogenic techniques used and the basic physics underlying superfluid 3He. We then describe in more detail vibrating wire techniques which are used for all the turbulence experiments in the low temperature limit. Finally we discuss the low temperature superfluid 3He experiments which have been made to date and compare the findings with observations in superfluid 4He and with the ideas of classical turbulence.

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Fisher, S.N. (2008). Turbulence Experiments in Superfluid 3He at Very Low Temperatures. In: Barenghi, C.F., Sergeev, Y.A. (eds) Vortices and Turbulence at Very Low Temperatures. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 501. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-09447-1_5

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