Generation of Large Vortex-Free Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Anatoli Ulmer; Andrea Heilrath; Björn Senfftleben; Sean M. O. O'Connell-Lopez; Björn Kruse; Lennart Seiffert; Katharina Kolatzki; Bruno Langbehn; Andreas Hoffmann; Thomas M. Baumann; Rebecca Boll; Adam S. Chatterley; Alberto De Fanis; Benjamin Erk; Swetha Erukala; Alexandra J. Feinberg; Thomas Fennel; Patrik Grychtol; Robert Hartmann; Markus Ilchen; Manuel Izquierdo; Bennet Krebs; Markus Kuster; Tommaso Mazza; Jacobo Montaño; Georg Noffz; Daniel E. Rivas; Dieter Schlosser; Fabian Seel; Henrik Stapelfeldt; Lothar Strüder; Josef Tiggesbäumker; Hazem Yousef; Michael Zabel; Pawel Ziolkowski; Michael Meyer; Yevheniy Ovcharenko; Andrey F. Vilesov; Thomas Möller; Daniela Rupp; Rico Mayro P. Tanyag

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.076002

Generation of Large Vortex-Free Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Anatoli Ulmer, Andrea Heilrath, Björn Senfftleben, Sean M. O. O'Connell-Lopez, Björn Kruse, Lennart Seiffert, Katharina Kolatzki, Bruno Langbehn, Andreas Hoffmann, Thomas M. Baumann, Rebecca Boll, Adam S. Chatterley, Alberto De Fanis, Benjamin Erk, Swetha Erukala, Alexandra J. Feinberg, Thomas Fennel, Patrik Grychtol, Robert Hartmann, Markus IlchenManuel Izquierdo, Bennet Krebs, Markus Kuster, Tommaso Mazza, Jacobo Montaño, Georg Noffz, Daniel E. Rivas, Dieter Schlosser, Fabian Seel, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Lothar Strüder, Josef Tiggesbäumker, Hazem Yousef, Michael Zabel, Pawel Ziolkowski, Michael Meyer, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Andrey F. Vilesov, Thomas Möller, Daniela Rupp, Rico Mayro P. Tanyag

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Abstract

Superfluid helium nanodroplets are an ideal environment for the formation of metastable, self-organized dopant nanostructures. However, the presence of vortices often hinders their formation. Here, we demonstrate the generation of vortex-free helium nanodroplets and explore the size range in which they can be produced. From x-ray diffraction images of xenon-doped droplets, we identify that single compact structures, assigned to vortex-free aggregation, prevail up to 108 atoms per droplet. This finding builds the basis for exploring the assembly of far-from-equilibrium nanostructures at low temperatures.

Original language	English
Article number	076002
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	131
Issue	7
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0031-9007
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.076002
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Physics - Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Physics - Fluid Dynamics

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Ulmer, A., Heilrath, A., Senfftleben, B., O'Connell-Lopez, S. M. O., Kruse, B., Seiffert, L., Kolatzki, K., Langbehn, B., Hoffmann, A., Baumann, T. M., Boll, R., Chatterley, A. S., De Fanis, A., Erk, B., Erukala, S., Feinberg, A. J., Fennel, T., Grychtol, P., Hartmann, R., ... Tanyag, R. M. P. (2023). Generation of Large Vortex-Free Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets. Physical Review Letters, 131(7), Article 076002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.076002

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Generation of Large Vortex-Free Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

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