https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3183-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Jeans instability in superfluids
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
* e-mail: yaronoz@post.tau.ac.il
Received:
25
August
2014
Accepted:
14
November
2014
Published online:
26
November
2014
We analyze the effect of a gravitational field on the sound modes of superfluids. We derive an instability condition that generalizes the well-known Jeans instability of the sound mode in normal fluids. We discuss potential experimental implications.
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