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Leggett, Anthony J. Palmeri, John Peter 2011-06-01T14:18:39Z 2011-06-01T14:18:39Z 10000-01-01 1989 This thesis deals with the theory of the primary nucleation and subsequent expansion of the superfluid 3He-B phase in the metastable, hypercooled A phase. An overview of the theory of dynamical phenomena in Fermi superfluids is presented in Chapter 1 with an eye towards formulating a theory suitable for studying the dynamics of the first order A-B phase transition. The mechanism for the primary B phase nucleation in the metastable A is not at all understood, and in Chapter 2 various possibilities are discussed, although no resolution to the problem is reached. The focus here is on an exotic non-equilibrium, cosmic ray, mechanism, which involves non-hydrodynamic heat transport in a state far from equilibrium. Chapter 3 deals with some idealized, model transport problems inspired by the physics behind the cosmic-ray mechanism, and it is shown that certain non-hydrodynamic dynamical structures similar to the ones needed in the cosmic-ray mechanism can form in these model problems. An application of superfluid kinetic equations to the nonlinear, dissipative motion of the A-B interface is discussed in Chapter 4; in particular, the mobility of the phase boundary is obtained in several different dynamical regimes (depending on temperature and pressure), including the (currently) experimentally relevant ballistic regime where the Andreev scattering of normal excitations off the moving interface strongly influences the dynamics. The theoretical prediction for the terminal velocity is too big by a factor ~ 2, and possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed. A study of the stability and vibrations of the interface is presented in Chapter 5, where we argue that (1) the moving planar interface is linearly stable and (2) it should be possible to observe underdamped vibrations of a pinned interface at low temperatures. Finally, in Chapter 6 we point out other possible applications of the dynamical theory formulated here and list some open problems. Submitted by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-01T14:18:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1989_palmeri.pdf: 7140982 bytes, checksum: 092fe9f08041bba0df0a934160ab002c (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-06-01T14:18:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1989_palmeri.pdf: 7140982 bytes, checksum: 092fe9f08041bba0df0a934160ab002c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:11:24-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: Thesis Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Carolyn Mead (cmead2@illinois.edu) on 2011-06-01T14:18:40Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Thesis U of I Only 3480315 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/25093 en 1989 John Peter Palmeri 3He-B phase A-B interface dynamics superfluid 3He primary B phase nucleation exotic non-equilibrium B phase nucleation and A-B interface dynamics in superfluid 3He Dissertation / Thesis text Physics Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.