JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS

Vol. 146, Nos.1/2

January 2007

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SPECIAL ISSUE

PROCEEDINGS of the LAMMI WORKSHOP
April 2006

 
QUANTUM PHENOMENA at LOW TEMPERATURES

M. Paalanen, organizer

    Preface...................................................................................................................................1

    Articles:

SUPERFLUID TURBULENCE

On Decaying Counterflow Turbulence in He II...........................................................................5.
    C.F. Barenghi and L. Skrbek

Freely Decaying Turbulence and Bose-Einstein Condensation in Gross-Pitaevski Model...........31
    Sergey Nazarenko and Miguel Onorato

QUANTUM FLUIDS AND SOLIDS

Numerically Calculated NMR Response from Different Vortex Distributions in
 Superfluid ³He-B........................................................................................................................47
    J. Kopu

Boundary Conditions at the Bulk-Aerogel Interface of Superfluid ³He-B....................................59
    L.T. Kurki and E.V. Thuneberg

Melting Pressure Thermometry of the Saturated Helium Mixture at Millikelvin Temperatures......71
    E. Pentti, J. Tuoriniemi, A. Salmela, and A. Sebedash

First Observation of the Critical Size of Facets on ³He Crystals near 1 mK...................................85
    H.J. Junes, H. Alles, A.Ya. Parshin, I.A. Todoshchenko, and V. Tsepelin

Pressurized ⁴He in Cylindrical and in Hexagonal Pores................................................................95
    M. Rossi, D.E. Galli and L. Reatto

FLUCTUATIONS AND RELAXATION  IN MESOSCOPIC CONDUCTORS

Current Cross Correlators in Mesoscopic Conductors....................................................................115
    P. Samuelsson and M. Buettiker

Detecting Current Noise with a Josephson Junction in the Macroscopic Quantum
 Tunneling Regime..........................................................................................................................135
    J.T. Peltonen, A.V. Timofeev, M. Meschke, and J. P. Pekola

Tunnel Junction as a Noise Probe...................................................................................................161
    E. Sonin

Influence of Supercurrents on Low-Temperature Thermopower in Mesoscopic N/S Structures......193
    J. Zou, I. Sosnin, P.  Virtanen, M. Meschke, V.T. Petrashov, and T.T. Heikkilä

Influence of Temperature Gradients on Tunnel Junction Thermometry below 1 K: Cooling
 and Electron-Phonon Coupling.......................................................................................................213
   J.T. Karvonen, L.J. Taskinen and I.J.  Maasilta


QUANTUM ENGINEERING
 
Dispersive Charge and Flux Qubit Readout as a Quantum Measurement Process..........................227
    L. Tornberg and G. Johansson

Landau-Zener Interferometry in a Cooper-Pair Box.........................................................................253
    M. Sillanpää, T. Lehtinen, A. Paila, Yu. Makhlin, and P.J. Hakonen
    
How Do Schrödinger Cats Die?.....................................................................................................263
    S. Paraoanu
  
Self-Gating of Quantum-Point Contacts at the Onset of Electron Tunneling.................................275
    K. Gloos, P. Utko, M. Aagesen, C.B. Sørensen, and P.E. Lindelöf





List of participants..........................................................................................................................285