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Title: Analog of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in superfluid He/sup 3/-A

Journal Article · · JETP Lett. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5300190

An analogy is found between the dynamics of the collective clapping mode near a vortex with a half-integer number of circulation quanta (n = 1/2) in He/sup 3/-A and the dynamics of an electron outside a cylindrical tube with the magnetic flux. Because of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the scattering of the clapping mode by vortices with n = 1/2 should be substantially greater than the scattering by vortices with n = 1 or 2. This difference might be exploited to identify vortices.

Research Organization:
L. D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
OSTI ID:
5300190
Journal Information:
JETP Lett. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 41:9
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English