What happens with the doubly quantized vortex in 3He-A at the A 2 → A 1 phase transition
Abstract
The decay of the nonsingular double quantized vortex in 3He-A into a pair of Mermin-Ho vortex textures in the immediate vicinity of the transition to the A 1 phase is investigated theoretically.
- Publication:
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Physica B Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0921-4526(92)90206-8
- Bibcode:
- 1992PhyB..178..274K