Josephson droplets

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1996 EDP Sciences
, , Citation C. Gay et al 1996 EPL 34 581 DOI 10.1209/epl/i1996-00498-4

0295-5075/34/8/581

Abstract

On a solid substrate, superfluid 4He may show stratified liquid films (above a solid 4He layer). Assuming the existence of these films, we analyse the dynamics of wetting for a two-layer droplet which tends to spread and transform into a one-layer droplet (at low temperature: no vapour phase is present). The permeation process between layers, which exists in classical liquids, is replaced here by a Josephson coupling. Spreading should occur via Josephson vortices that drift towards the centre of the droplet.

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10.1209/epl/i1996-00498-4