Published August 6, 2007
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Journal article
Spontaneous symmetry breaking in superfluid helium-4
Creators
- 1. Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang 790-784 (Korea, Republic of) and Physics Division, History of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501 (Japan)
Description
We derive an analytical expression for a critical temperature of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a repulsive hard-core interacting Bose system. We show that the critical temperature of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a hard-core interacting Bose system is determined by the three physical parameters: the density of Bose liquid at absolute zero (ρ0), the mass (m) and the hard sphere diameter (σ) of a boson. The formula that we have derived is Tc=ρ0π(h/2π)2σ/m2kB. We report Tc of liquid helium-4 is 2.194 K, which is significantly close to the λ-temperature of 2.1768 K. The deviation between the predicted and experimental values of the λ-temperature is less than 1%
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2007.03.041;
- arXiv
- arXiv:cond-mat/0701365v2;
- PII
- S0375-9601(07)00442-2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. A
- Journal Volume
- 367
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 489-492
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
- CODEN
- PYLAAG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39014252
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSONS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; HELIUM 4; LIQUIDS; MASS; SPHERES; SUPERFLUIDITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING
- Descriptors DEC
- EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FLUIDS; HELIUM ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.