NMR on superfluid3He in aerogel

Autor: Jan Kycia, Yvonne C. Lee, T. M. Haard, M. R. Rand, D. T. Sprague, William P Halperin
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. 46:2989-2994
ISSN: 1572-9486
0011-4626
DOI: 10.1007/bf02548101
Popis: The transition to superfluidity of3He in high porosity (98.2%) acrogel has been observed by nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. The onset of the transition at all pressures above 13 bar is marked by a sharp increase in NMR frequency similar to that observed in bulk3He-A. This suggests that the aerogel/superfluid phase is highly homogeneous although both the transition temperature, Tc, and the amplitude of the order parameter are substantially suppressed. The acrogel strands are ≈ 50A in diameter, much smaller than the superfluid coherence length. Consequently, we have attempted to interpret our observations as an impurity scattering problem. Based on our measurements of the magnetic field dependence of Tc it appears that both magnetic and potential scattering play important roles where the magnetic scattering can be associated with solid3He on the aerogel surface. This is determined by isotopic exchange with4He, a process which appears to stabilize a new superfluid state similar to the bulk B-phase.
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