Anomalously Small Excitation Gaps as a Precursor of Dislocation Core Superfluidity in Solid Helium-4

Abstract

In the vicinity of the insulator-to-superfluid quantum phase transition in its core, a dislocation in a He-4 crystal supports particle-hole excitations with arbitrary small gaps. These exotic analogs of Frenkel interstitial-vacancy pairs should manifest themselves in various threshold and thermoactivation effects. In Worm Algorithm simulations, we reveal the presence of corresponding small gaps via anomalous thermoactivation behavior of particle number fluctuations, which we unambiguously associate with dislocations by "visualization" techniques. Experimentally, the related threshold and thermoactivation dependencies could be observed in the ultrasound absorption.

arXiv commentarXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2103.08011

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