Published August 6, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in superfluid helium-4

  • 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%

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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

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.