Abstract
Superfluid-vortex thresholds in a rotating annulus were detected with second sound in the temperature range . A rapid decrease of the threshold angular velocity was observed as . The data can only be fitted to the theory of Fetter if a rapidly diverging vortex-core parameter is assumed.
- Received 20 May 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.470
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