CMT149

Half-Quantum Vortices in Superfluid Helium

• Author(s): J. A. Sauls
• Address: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
• Date: December 14, 2016
• Journal: Physics [DOI] [PDF]
• Abstract: Researchers working with superfluid helium in a porous medium have generated vortices with half the quantum unit of fluid flow.

• Comment: This is a ViewPoint article written to highlight the discovery and publication of the ``Observation of half-quantum vortices in topological superfluid ³He'', by S. Autti et al., appearing in Physical Review Letters 117, 255301 (2016).

• Eprint: [PDF]

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