Entropy entrainment and dissipation in finite temperature superfluids

DOI10.1142/S0218271811019396zbMATH Open1253.85003arXiv0811.1660WikidataQ60713115 ScholiaQ60713115MaRDI QIDQ4649658FDOQ4649658

Authors: G. L. Comer, N. Andersson 

Publication date: 13 November 2012

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Building on a general variational framework for multi-fluid dynamics, we discuss finite temperature effects in superfluids. The main aim is to provide insight into the modelling of more complex finite temperature superfluid systems, like the mixed neutron superfluid/proton superconductor that is expected in the outer core of a neutron star. Our final results can also (to a certain extent) be used to describe colour-flavour locked quark superconductors that may be present at the extreme densities in the deep neutron star core. As a demonstration of the validity of the model, which is based on treating the excitations in the system as a massless ``entropy fluid, we show that it is formally equivalent to the traditional two-fluid approach for superfluid Helium. In particular, we highlight the fact that the entropy entrainment encodes the ``normal fluid density of the traditional approach. We also show how the superfluid constraint of irrotationality reduces the number of dissipation coefficients in the system. This analysis provides insight into the more general problem when vortices are present in the superfluid, and we discuss how the so-called mutual friction force can be accounted for in our framework. The end product is a hydrodynamic formalism for finite temperature effects in a single superfluid condensate. This framework can readily be extended to more complex situations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1660

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zbMATH Keywords

dissipationhydrodynamicsthermodynamicssuperfluidsneutron stars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants (28D20) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Superfluids (classical aspects) (76A25)

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