Local superfluidity at the nanoscale

B. Kulchytskyy, G. Gervais, and A. Del Maestro
Phys. Rev. B 88, 064512 – Published 26 August 2013

Abstract

Motivated by the search for an experimentally realizable high density and strongly interacting one-dimensional quantum liquid, we have performed quantum Monte Carlo simulations of bosonic helium-4 confined inside a nanopore with cylindrical symmetry. By implementing two numerical estimators of superfluidity corresponding to capillary flow and the rotating bucket experiment, we have simultaneously measured the finite size and temperature superfluid response of 4He to the longitudinal and rotational motion of the walls of a nanopore. Within the two-fluid model, the portion of the normal liquid dragged along with the boundaries is dependent on the type of motion, and the resulting anisotropic superfluid density plateaus far below unity at T=0.5K. The origin of the saturation is uncovered by computing the spatial distribution of superfluidity, with only the core of the nanopore exhibiting any evidence of phase coherence. The superfluid core displays a scaling behavior consistent with Luttinger liquid theory, thereby providing an experimental test for the emergence of a one-dimensional quantum liquid.

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  • Received 1 April 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.064512

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

B. Kulchytskyy1, G. Gervais1, and A. Del Maestro2

  • 1Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 2T8
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA

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Vol. 88, Iss. 6 — 1 August 2013

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