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Half-Quantum Vortices in Thin Film of Superfluid $^3$He

Kenji Kondo·Tetsuo Ohmi·Mikio Nakahara·Takuto Kawakami·Yasumasa Tsutsumi·Kazushige Machida
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Stability of a half-quantum vortex (HQV) in superfluid $^3$He has been discussed recently by Kawakami, Tsutsumi and Machida in Phys. Rev. B {\bf 79}, 092506 (2009). We further extend this work here and consider the A$_2$ phase of superfluid $^3$He confined in thin slab geometry and analyze the HQV realized in this setting. Solutions of HQV and singly quantized singular vortex are evaluated numerically by solving the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation and respective first critical angular velocities are obtained by employing these solutions. We show that the HQV in the A$_2$ phase is stable near the boundary between the A$_2$ and A$_1$ phases. It is found that temperature and magnetic field must be fixed first in the stable region and subsequently the angular velocity of the system should be increased from zero to a sufficiently large value to create a HQV with sufficiently large probability. A HQV does not form if the system starts with a fixed angular velocity and subsequently the temperature is lowered down to the A$_2$ phase. It is estimated that the external magnetic field with strength on the order of 1 T is required to have a sufficiently large domain in the temperature-magnetic field phase diagram to have a stable HQV.

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Kenji Kondo, Tetsuo Ohmi, Mikio Nakahara, Takuto Kawakami, Yasumasa Tsutsumi, Kazushige Machida. 2012-06-13. Half-Quantum Vortices in Thin Film of Superfluid $^3$He. https://doi.org/10.1143/jpsj.81.104603

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