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Collapse of Vapor-Filled Bubbles in Liquid Helium

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Multielectron bubbles (MEBs) are charged cavities in liquid helium which provide an interesting platform for the study of electrons on curved surfaces. Very recently, we have reported an experiment to trap these objects in a two-dimensional Paul trap, where they could be observed from ten to hundreds of milliseconds. During this time, the vapor inside the bubble condensed which resulted in a steady reduction in their size such that beyond a certain time the MEBs could no longer be detected. In this paper, we present experimental data on the lifetime of the bubbles as a function of their initial radius and compare the results with a theoretical model.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge funding from Nanomission, DST and the International Travel Grant Award Program from APS, USA. This work was partially supported by the US National Science Foundation through Grant No. GR5260053.

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  1. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

    Anustuv Pal, Vaisakh Vadakkumbatt, Neha Yadav & Ambarish Ghosh

  2. Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

    Emil Joseph & Ambarish Ghosh

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Vinod Srinivasan

  4. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Humphrey J. Maris

  5. Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, IISc, Bangalore, India

    Ambarish Ghosh

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Pal, A., Joseph, E., Vadakkumbatt, V. et al. Collapse of Vapor-Filled Bubbles in Liquid Helium. J Low Temp Phys 188, 101–111 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-017-1782-2

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