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Friction on quantized vortices in helium II. A review

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We present an analysis of recent data on friction and drag on quantized vortices in helium II. From these data, we deduce values of the phenomenological and microscopic coefficients of friction on vortex lines and rings over a wide range of temperatures at the saturated vapor pressure. We demonstrate that the microscopic parameters are unusually sensitive to the input data. We include brief discussions of the vortex core parameter, and present the results of precision fits of a number of thermodynamic and transport properties of He II which are used in mutual friction calculations.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

    C. F. Barenghi & R. J. Donnelly

  2. Department of Physics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    W. F. Vinen

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Research supported by NSF Low Temperature Physics Program Grant DMR 81-17570.

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Barenghi, C.F., Donnelly, R.J. & Vinen, W.F. Friction on quantized vortices in helium II. A review. J Low Temp Phys 52, 189–247 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00682247

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