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Effect of boundary conditions on superfluid helium in capillaries below 0.5 K

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Our recent analysis of finite-size effects in superfluid helium films, under different boundary conditions, is now extended to the case of a capillary geometry. Comparison with experiment suggests, even more strongly than before, that Neumann boundary conditions might be the most appropriate ones for the system in question.

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Pajkowski, H.R., Pathria, R.K. Effect of boundary conditions on superfluid helium in capillaries below 0.5 K. J Low Temp Phys 35, 349–361 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00115585

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