{"title":"Dry vortices in thin helium films","authors":"Pierre-Gilles De Gennes","doi":"10.1016/S1287-4620(99)90011-X","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A very thin superfluid film on a weakly attractive surface (such as rubidium metal) should display an unusual vortex structure, with a dry core larger than the standard core radius λ. In this structure, the capillary energies are slightly increased, but the vortex kinetic energy is reduced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100303,"journal":{"name":"Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIB - Mechanics-Physics-Astronomy","volume":"327 13","pages":"Pages 1337-1343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1287-4620(99)90011-X","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIB - Mechanics-Physics-Astronomy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S128746209990011X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A very thin superfluid film on a weakly attractive surface (such as rubidium metal) should display an unusual vortex structure, with a dry core larger than the standard core radius λ. In this structure, the capillary energies are slightly increased, but the vortex kinetic energy is reduced.