Textural singularities in the superfluid A phase of3He
โ Scribed by M. C. Cross; W. F. Brinkman
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-2291
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Making use of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy, singularities such as disgyrations and vortex lines and stable textures in the planar (or twodimensional) texture are studied. Here both f and a vectors, characterizing the texture in 3He-A, are assumed parallel to each other and lie always in a plane.
We calculate the equilibrium configurations of three textures in a narrow cylinder in the presence of superflow along the cylinder axis. The Mermin-Ho texture is shown to be unstable against a small twist in the dipole-free limit even in the absence of superflow. The radial disgyration undergoes a s