368 research outputs found
Critical current of 3He-A in narrow channels
The critical current Jc of superfluid 3He-A in 0.8-μm-diam channels has been measured by the observation of the pressure difference along the channels versus the mass current. During warming Jc was found to decrease by about 30% at TBA(cyl) and by another 30% at TBA; TBA(cyl) is the reduced B→A transition temperature in the narrow flow channels, with TBA(cyl)TBA=0.92 at 27.4 bars. Above TBA a second dissipative mechanism was observed at lower currents. These features are believed to be associated with the ends of the channels.Peer reviewe
Critical temperature of superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers
Superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers are known to exhibit nontrivial
dependence of the critical temperature T_c on the thickness d_f of the
ferromagnetic layer. We develop a general method for investigation of T_c as a
function of the bilayer's parameters. It is shown that interference of
quasiparticles makes T_c(d_f) a nonmonotonic function. The results are in good
agreement with experiment. Our method also applies to multilayered structures.Comment: 4 pages, 2 EPS figures; the style file jetpl.cls is included. Version
2: typos correcte
Unfinished History and Paradoxes of Quantum Potential. II. Relativistic Point of View
This is the second of the two related papers analysing origins and possible
explanations of a paradoxical phenomenon of the quantum potential (QP). It
arises in quantum mechanics'(QM) of a particle in the Riemannian
-dimensional configurational space obtained by various procedures of
quantization of the non-relativistic natural Hamilton systems. Now, the two
questions are investigated: 1)Does QP appear in the non-relativistic QM
generated by the quantum theory of scalar field (QFT) non-minimally coupled to
the space-time metric? 2)To which extent is it in accord with quantization of
the natural systems? To this end, the asymptotic non-relativistic equation for
the particle-interpretable wave functions and operators of canonical
observables are obtained from the primary QFT objects. It is shown that, in the
globally-static space-time, the Hamilton operators coincide at the origin of
the quasi-Euclidean space coordinates in the both altenative approaches for any
constant of non-minimality , but a certain requirement of the
Principle of Equivalence to the quantum field propagator distinguishes the
unique value . Just the same value had the constant in
the quantum Hamiltonians arising from the traditional quantizations of the
natural systems: the DeWitt canonical, Pauli-DeWitt quasiclassical, geometrical
and Feynman ones, as well as in the revised Schr\"{o}dinger variational
quantization. Thus, QP generated by mechanics is tightly related to
non-minimality of the quantum scalar field. Meanwhile, an essential discrepancy
exists between the non-relativistic QMs derived from the two altenative
approaches: QFT generate a scalar QP, whereas various quantizations of natural
mechanics, lead to PQs depending on choice of space coordinates as physical
observables and non-vanishing even in the flat space if the coordinates are
curvilinear.Comment: 15 pages, based on the plenary talk at the A. Z. Petrov Centenary
Memorial International Symposium, 1-7.11.2010, Kazan, Russia. Few errors are
corrected and minor improving changes are introduced into Chapters 4 -
On the scalar sector of the covariant graviton two-point function in de Sitter spacetime
We examine the scalar sector of the covariant graviton two-point function in
de Sitter spacetime. This sector consists of the pure-trace part and another
part described by a scalar field. We show that it does not contribute to
two-point functions of gauge-invariant quantities. We also demonstrate that the
long-distance growth present in some gauges is absent in this sector for a wide
range of gauge parameters.Comment: 15 pages, no figures, LaTeX, considerably shortene
Search for the ac Josephson effect in superfluid 3He
Experiments testing for the existence of the ac Josephson effect in superfluid 3He, analogous to phenomena observed in superconducting microbridges, have been performed. Small holes were employed as the weak link between two reservoirs filled with 3He; several different orifice geometries were tried. Simple model calculations suggest that steps in the flow characteristics should be observable with our resolution when an ac pressure modulation is applied across the weak link. We found that such effects do not exist for the parameter values used in our experiments.Peer reviewe
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