Semi-Microscopic Theory for Emission of Elementary Excitations into He II from a Heated Solid
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DOI10.1238/PHYSICA.REGULAR.069A00059zbMATH Open1041.82552arXivcond-mat/0109156OpenAlexW1968868963MaRDI QIDQ4453950FDOQ4453950
Authors: Alexander V. Zhukov 
Publication date: 7 March 2004
Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: I develop here the microscopic quantum theory for description of creation of phonons and rotons in superfluid helium by a solid heater. Starting with correct transfer Hamiltonian describing a coupling between the solid and liquid He the probabilities of transformation of a single phonon in the solid into i) single helium phonon, ii) two helium phonons, and iii) single helium roton are found out. All the obtained expressions account for different polarizations of phonons in the solid. The heat transfer associated with single phonon and single roton channels are calculated. Particularly, the obtained expression for heat flux via the single phonon channel calculated in the framework of present microscopic theory exactly coincides with the well known Khalatnikov formula obtained initially in the framework of acoustic-mismatch theory. The impossibility of direct creation of R rotons becomes clear in the used framework due to accurate account of the boundary conditions at the solid -- liquid helium interface, which is in agreement with recent experimental results.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109156
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