title: Staircaselike suppression of supersolidity under rotation.
abstract: There are a number of distinct signatures of superfluids, one of which is the appearance of quantized vortices. There have been some attempts to understand the putative supersolid 4He in the vortex framework, but no conclusive evidence that supports the existence of the vortices has been reported. Here, we investigate the rotation velocity dependence of the torsional oscillation of solid 4He at various temperatures. The velocity sweep reveals intriguing periodic staircaselike features below about 300 mK. The staircase patterns show remarkable periodicity, and we interpret these patterns as a consequence of vortex injection. However, there are some features that cannot be accounted for with simple injection of vortices into superfluid, and further investigation is required.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Center for Supersolid and Quantum Matter Research, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kim