Shapes of rotating superfluid helium nanodroplets

Bernando, Charles; Tanyag, Rico Mayro P.; Jones, Curtis; Bacellar, Camila; Bucher, Maximilian; Ferguson, Ken R.; Rupp, Daniela; Ziemkiewicz, Michael P.; Gomez, Luis F.; Chatterley, Adam S.; Gorkhover, Tais; Muller, Maria; Bozek, John; Carron, Sebastian; Kwok, Justin; Butler, Samuel L.; Moller, Thomas; Bostedt, Christoph; Gessner, Oliver; Vilesov, Andrey F.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.064510

Title: Shapes of rotating superfluid helium nanodroplets

Journal Article · Thu Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.064510· OSTI ID:1353180

Bernando, Charles ^[1]; Tanyag, Rico Mayro P. ^[2]; Jones, Curtis ^[2]; Bacellar, Camila ^[3]; Bucher, Maximilian ^[4]; Ferguson, Ken R. ^[5]; Rupp, Daniela ^[6]; Ziemkiewicz, Michael P. ^[7]; Gomez, Luis F. ^[8]; Chatterley, Adam S. ^[9]; Gorkhover, Tais ^[10]; Muller, Maria ^[6]; Bozek, John ^[11]; Carron, Sebastian ^[12]; Kwok, Justin ^[13]; Butler, Samuel L. ^[14]; Moller, Thomas ^[6]; Bostedt, Christoph ^[15]; Gessner, Oliver ^[16]; Vilesov, Andrey F. ^[17]

Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics
Technical Univ. of Berlin, Berlin (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Atomic Physics
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Vescent Photonics, Inc., Golden, CO (United States)
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; IPG Photonics, Santa Clara, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division; Aarhus Univ., Aarhus (Denmark). Dept. of Chemistry
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); Technical Univ. of Berlin, Berlin (Germany). Inst. of Optics and Atomic Physics
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); California Lutheran Univ., Thousand Oaks, CA (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Monk Family Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK (Canada). Dept. of Geological Sciences
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Inst. (PULSE); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy and . Dept. of Chemistry

Rotating superfluid He droplets of approximately 1 μm in diameter were obtained in a free nozzle beam expansion of liquid He in vacuum and were studied by single-shot coherent diffractive imaging using an x-ray free electron laser. The formation of strongly deformed droplets is evidenced by large anisotropies and intensity anomalies (streaks) in the obtained diffraction images. The analysis of the images shows that in addition to previously described axially symmetric oblate shapes, some droplets exhibit prolate shapes. Forward modeling of the diffraction images indicates that the shapes of rotating superfluid droplets are very similar to their classical counterparts, giving direct access to the droplet angular momenta and angular velocities. The analyses of the radial intensity distribution and appearance statistics of the anisotropic images confirm the existence of oblate metastable superfluid droplets with large angular momenta beyond the classical bifurcation threshold.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: DMR-1501276; CHE-1362535; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; LA1214; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1353180

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1344133; OSTI ID: 1459382

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 95, Issue 6; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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