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Nucleation of vortices by rapid thermal quench

I. S. Aranson, N. B. Kopnin, V. M. Vinokur

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9905286

Abstract

We show that vortex nucleation in superfluid 3He by rapid thermal quench in the presence of superflow is dominated by a transverse instability of the moving normal-superfluid interface. Exact expressions for the instability threshold as a function of supercurrent density and the front velocity are found. The results are verified by numerical solution of the Ginzburg-Landau equation.

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