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Superfluid $^4$He (He-II) is a widely studied model system for exploring finite-size effects in strongly confined geometries. Here, we study He-II confined in mm-scale channels of 25 and 50 nm height at high pressures using a nanofluidic…

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We report the observation of discrete displacement of nanomechanical oscillators with gigahertz-range resonance frequencies at millikelvin temperatures. The oscillators are nanomachined single-crystal structures of silicon, designed to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexei Gaidarzhy , Guiti Zolfagharkhani , Robert L. Badzey , Pritiraj Mohanty

Very recent report [1] on observation of superconductivity in Bi4O4S3 could potentially reignite the search for superconductivity in a broad range of layered sulphides. We report here synthesis of Bi4O4S3 at 5000C by vacuum encapsulation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-21 Shiva Kumar Singh , Anuj Kumar , Bhasker Gahtori , Shruti Kirtan , G. Sharma , S. Patnaik , V. P. S. Awana

Within Density Functional theory, we investigate stationary many-vortex structures in a rotating $^4$He nanocylinder at zero temperature. We compute the stability diagram and compare our results with the classical model of vortical lines in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Francesco Ancilotto , Marti Pi , Manuel Barranco

We apply our recently developed model of a Bose condensate of quantum kink wave in solid He4 to understand recent torsional oscillator experimental results of the citical velocities and the effect of the steady and oscillating rotations at…

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We report the observation of prominent Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in a Topological Insulator, Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se, with large bulk resistivity (6 $\Omega$cm at 4 K). By fitting the SdH oscillations, we infer a large metallicity parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jun Xiong , A. C. Petersen , Dongxia Qu , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

We analyze the time profile $\Delta T(t)$ of the temperature difference, measured across a very compressible supercritical $^3$He fluid layer in its convective state. The experiments were done along the critical isochore in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Horst Meyer , Andrei B. Kogan

In bulk Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$, the strong sensitivity of the superconducting transition temperature $T_{\text{c}}$ to nonmagnetic impurities provides robust evidence for a superconducting order parameter that changes sign around the Fermi…

The ongoing experimental and theoretical effort aimed at understanding non-classical rotational inertia in solid helium, has sparked renewed interest in the supersolid phase of matter, its microscopic origin and character, and its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-14 Massimo Boninsegni , Nikolay Prokof'ev

We propose a new theoretical approach to the excitation spectrum of superfluid ${^4}He$. It is based on the assumption that, in addition to the usual Feynman density fluctuations, there exist localized modes which describe the short range…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 N. Gov , E. Akkermans

The supersolid phase of soft-core bosons in two dimensions is investigated using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock and quantum Monte Carlo methods. An approximate phase diagram at finite temperatures is initially constructed using the…

We describe measurements of the decay of pure superfluid turbulence in superfluid 3He-B, in the low temperature regime where the normal fluid density is negligible. We follow the decay of the turbulence generated by a vibrating grid as…

We derive the hydrodynamic equations of motion of solid and supersolid 4He, that describe the collective modes of these phases. In particular, the usual hydrodynamics is modified in such a way that it leads to the presence of a propagating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 M. J. Bijlsma , H. T. C. Stoof

The critical phenomena associated to the liquid to solid transition of quasi-two-dimensional vibrated granular systems is studied using molecular dynamics simulations of the inelastic hard sphere model. The critical properties are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Marcelo Guzman , Rodrigo Soto

We have performed a high resolution specific heat measurement on 4He completely filling the pores of Vycor glass. Within 10mK of the superfluid transition we have found a peak in the heat capacity which is only 0.02% the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. M. Zassenhaus , J. D. Reppy

In the low-density surface region of superfluid $^4$He, the atoms are far apart and collisions can be ignored. The only effect of the interactions is from the long-range attractive Hartree potential produced by the distant high-density bulk…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Griffin , S. Stringari