Rotational quantum friction in superfluids: Radiation from object rotating in superfluid vacuum
Abstract
We discuss the friction experienced by the body rotating in superfluid liquid at T=0. The effect is analogous to the amplification of electromagnetic radiation and spontaneous emission by the body or black hole rotating in quantum vacuum, first discussed by Zel'dovich and Starobinsky. The friction is caused by the interaction of the part of the liquid, which is rigidly connected with the rotating body and thus represents the comoving detector, with the "Minkowski" vacuum outside the body. The emission process is the quantum tunneling of quasiparticles from the detector to the ergoregion, where the energy of quasiparticles is negative in the rotating frame. This quantum rotational friction caused by the emission of quasiparticles is estimated for phonons and rotons in superfluid 4He and for Bogoliubov fermions in superfluid 3He.
- Publication:
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Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1134/1.568024
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9901163
- Bibcode:
- 1999JETPL..69..281C
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- RevTex file, 4 pages, 1 figure