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Iordanskii Force and the Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect for a Moving Vortex

Michael Stone

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9909313

Abstract

I discuss the scattering of phonons by a vortex moving with respect to a superfluid condensate. This allows us to test the compatibility of the scattering-theory derivation of the Iordanskii force with the galilean invariance of the underlying fluid dynamics. In order to obtain the correct result we must retain O(vs2) terms in the sound-wave equation, and this reinforces the interpretation, due to Volovik, of the Iordanskii force as an analogue of the gravitational Bohm-Aharonov effect.

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