Published August 1, 1979 | Version v1
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Composite solitons in 3He-A in the presence of superflow

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007

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We have studied theoretically the effect of superflow on the composite solitons in 3He-A for Hparallelv/sub s/ and Hperpendicularv/sub s/. Here H is a static magnetic field and v/sub s/ is the superfluid velocity. The domain-wall energy as well as related NMR satellite frequencies are determined as functions of v/sub s/. In the parallel geometry (Hparallelv/sub s/), we predict hysteresis in the satellite frequencies when the superfluid velocity v/sub s/ is changed, due to the existence of two branches of stable textures. In both configurations there exist critical velocities v/sub s/(< or approx. =l mm/sec), at which the domain-wall energy becomes negative indicating the global instability of the uniform texture

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Journal Title
Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Rev., B: Condens. Matter.
Journal Page Range
963-971