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Published on: February 22, 2018
Mutual-friction-driven turbulent statistics in the hydrodynamic regime of superfluid ^{3}He-B
1Department of Physics, Handique Girls' College, Guwahati 781 001, India.
Abstract:
It is well known that the turbulence that evolves from the tangles of vortices in quantum fluids at scales larger than the typical quantized vortex spacing ℓ has a close resemblance with classical turbulence. The temperature-dependent mutual friction parameter α(T) drives the turbulent statistics in the hydrodynamic regime of quantum fluids that involves a self-similar cascade of energy. From a simple theoretical analysis, here we show that superfluid ^{3}He-B in the presence of mutual damping exhibits a k^{-5/3} Kolmogorov energy spectrum in the entire inertial range ℓ
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