Two-dimensional ion-plasma resonances under the surface of liquid helium

Hannahs, S. T.; Williams, Gary A.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.42.7901

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“…The 2D ion pool of electron bubbles and snowballs are used by Poitrenaud and Williams to directly determine the ionic masses in suprefluid 4 He [15]. Ott-Rowland et al, and Hannahs and Williams investigated plasma resonances of the 2D ion pool of snowballs [16][17][18]. Later on, Vinen's group in Birmingham had carried out the most vigorous investigations on the ion pools [3,[19][20][21][22]; mobility [23][24][25][26], plasmons [27], edge magnetoplasmons [28][29][30][31][32], novel oscillation modes of the Wigner solid [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], and so forth [41,42].…”

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Snowball critical velocity to nucleate quantized vortex in isotopically pure 4He

Takahashi

Ikegami

Kono

2022

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The critical velocity for vortex nucleation of snowball (positive ion) is determined experimentally in isotopically purified 4He at temperatures down to 50 mK. Systematic I-V characteristic measurements for the two-dimensional snowball pool at the depth of 37.6 nm from the surface are carried out with an extremely fine control of driving electric fields. The critical velocity of ∼ 32 ms-1 at 500 mK decreases with lowering temperature and approaches a temperature independent value of ∼ 18 ms-1 below 200 mK. The decrease of critical velocity corresponds to the increase of the nucleation rate. The temperature dependence of the critical velocity is qualitatively attributed to the "superohmic" macroscopic quantum tunnelling developed by Caldeira and Leggett. The reduction of the tunnelling rate by increasing temperature is an evidence for the quantum friction.

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