Helicity in Superfluids: existence and the classical limit
arXiv:1708.01526 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.104702
Abstract
In addition to mass, energy, and momentum, classical dissipationless flows conserve helicity, a measure of the topology of the flow. Helicity has far-reaching consequences for classical flows from Newtonian fluids to plasmas. Since superfluids flow without dissipation, a fundamental question is whether such a conserved quantity exists for superfluid flows. We address the existence of a "superfluid helicity" using an analytical approach based on the the symmetry underlying classical helicity conservation: the particle relabeling symmetry. Furthermore, we use numerical simulations to study whether bundles of superfluid vortices which approximate the structure of a classical vortex, recover the conservation of classical helicity and find dynamics consistent with classical vortices in a viscous fluid.
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