X Conference of Young Scientists "Problems of Theoretical Physics"

Thermal counterflow and electrical activity of superfluid systems in a magnetic field

23 Dec 2019, 10:15

20m

322 (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Oral Condensed Matter Physics Condensed Matter Physics

Speaker

Mr Aleksandr Konstantinov (B.Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Description

It is shown that the thermal counterflow in superfluid helium placed in a magnetic field leads to the appearance of an electric field in the surrounding space. The effect is due to the counterflow nature of thermal conductivity in superfluid systems: heat transfer in such systems is associated with the movement of the normal component, but the average mass flow carried by the normal component is compensated by the mass flow carried by the superfluid component. The local mass flow is nonzero. The effect occurs for stationary and non-stationary (second sound) heat flow. The features of the effect for samples with different geometries are considered. It was established that the magnitude of the arising electric field substantially depends on the shape of the sample and the direction of the magnetic field [1].

[1] S.I. Shevchenko, A.M. Konstantinov, JETP Lett. 109, 790-794, (2019).