We have performed Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) on uniaxially strained aerogels and measured the strain-induced structural anisotropy. We use a model to connect our SAXS results to anisotropy of the 3He quasiparticle mean free path in aerogel.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606702,
title = {Compressed Silica Aerogels for the Study of Superfluid 3He},
author = {J. Pollanen and H. Choi and J. P. Davis and S. Blinstein and T. M. Lippman and L. B. Lurio and N. Mulders and W. P. Halperin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606702},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 24th Low Temperature Physics Conference