Horst Meyer and Quantum Evaporation

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• 作者：S. Balibar
• 关键词：Superfluidity ; Helium ; Evaporation
• 刊名：Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：185
• 期：3-4
• 页码：209-219
• 全文大小：845 KB
• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Physics
  Condensed Matter
  Characterization and Evaluation Materials
  Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7357
• 卷排序：185

文摘

With their 1963 article in Cryogenics Horst Meyer and his collaborators triggered intense research activity on the evaporation of superfluid helium. Discussing this subject with him in 1975 was enlightening. Fifty years later, the analogy between the photoelectric effect and the evaporation of superfluid helium in the low temperature limit is not yet clear, although remarkable progress has been made in its observation and its understanding. This special issue of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics is an opportunity to recall the history of quantum evaporation, and to express my gratitude to Horst Meyer. It describes quickly most of the experimental and theoretical works which have been published on quantum evaporation during the last 50 years, but it is not a comprehensive review of this fascinating subject.