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Keita Onodera1, Ryuma Nagatomo1, Keito Miyake1
1Department of Applied Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/02e16g702">Hokkaido University</a>, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kitaku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan.
Abstract:
Droplets should exhibit various dynamical phenomena when adhered to a surface; not all of them are realized in classical fluids. Visualization of superfluid ^{4}He pendant droplets revealed that the droplets were horizontally translated on a flat surface, bouncing off at the corner, known as the Noether mode that reflects the translation symmetry. The droplets exhibited another mode in vertical oscillations with high amplitude that included oscillation of the droplet edge. The oscillation period remained constant even as the droplets grew, exhibiting an anomalously weak size dependence. The high mobility of the droplet edges owing to the superfluidity was a crucial factor for the appearance of these anomalous modes.
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