Vortices with fractional circulation quantum in superfluid 3HeA2

✍ Scribed by G. Kharadze; G. Vachnadze

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 232 KB
• Volume: 210
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4526
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-4526(94)01117-j

✦ Synopsis

Due to the specific discrete symmetry of the superfluid 3He-A2 order parameter, linear singularities can exist which are characterized by a quarter-integer quantum of superflow velocity circulation. Some consequences of this observation are analyzed.

O = ½[(A r + A,)al(Z) + i(AT --A,)d2(z)]e i'p

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