Inviscid diffusion of vorticity in low temperature superfluid helium
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⚛️ physics.flu-dyn
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heliumlinesvortexdiffusionkappaspreadingtemperatureabsence
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We numerically study the spatial spreading of quantized vortex lines in low temperature liquid helium. The vortex lines, initially concentrated in a small region, diffuse into the surrounding vortex-free helium, a situation which is typical of many experiments. We find that this spreading, which occurs in the absence of viscosity, emerges from the interactions between the vortex lines, and can be interpreted as a diffusion process with effective coefficient equal to approximately 0.5$\kappa$ where $\kappa$ is the quantum of circulation.
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