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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Quantum kinetic theory of collisionless superfluid internal convection
1State Research Center OPTIMAS and Fachbereich Physik, Technische Univerität Kaiserslautern, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany. lgilz@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Abstract:
Superfluids can transport heat via simultaneous opposite flows of their spatially interpenetrating condensate and noncondensate components. While this internal convection is usually described within Landau's phenomenological two-fluid hydrodynamics, we apply quantum kinetic theory to a dilute Bose gas held between thermal reservoirs at different temperatures and show that the phenomenon also appears in collisionless kinetic regimes and should be directly observable in currently feasible experiments on trapped ultracold vapors.
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