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We have used torsional oscillators, containing disk-shaped slabs of superfluid 3He-A, to probe the chiral orbital textures created by cooling into the superfluid state while continuously rotating. Comparing the observed flow-driven textural…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-21 P. M. Walmsley , A. I. Golov

NMR spectra in superfluid A-like phases confined in axially deformed aerogel in presence of a magnetic field inclined with respect to deformation axis is considered. The characteristic features of dipole frequency shift in axially…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 G. A. Baramidze , G. A. Kharadze

In a rotating two-phase sample of 3He-B and magnetic-field stabilized 3He-A the large difference in mutual friction dissipation at 0.20 Tc gives rise to unusual vortex flow responses. We use noninvasive NMR techniques to monitor spin down…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-12-20 P. M. Walmsley , V. B. Eltsov , P. J. Heikkinen , J. J. Hosio , R. Hanninen , M. Krusius

It has been suggested that anisotropic quasiparticle scattering will stabilize anisotropic phases of superfluid $^3$He contained within highly porous silica aerogel. For example, global anisotropy introduced via uniaxial compression of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-24 J. P. Davis , J. Pollanen , B. Reddy , K. R. Shirer , H. Choi , W. P. Halperin

We report the observation of a new superfluid phase of 3He -- polar phase. This phase appears in 3He confined in a new type of aerogel with nearly parallel arrangement of strands which play a role of ordered impurities. Our observations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-10-21 V. V. Dmitriev , A. A. Senin , A. A. Soldatov , A. N. Yudin

The experimental investigation of superfluid turbulence in 3He-B is generally not possible with the techniques which have been developed for 4He-II. We describe a new method by which a transient burst of turbulent vortex expansion can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Finne , S. Boldarev , V. B. Eltsov , M. Krusius

The A and B phases of superfluid 3 He have vector degrees of freedom that reflect their characteristic broken symmetries, respectively chiral and spin-orbit rotation axes. Anisotropic disorder in the superfluid, imbibed in uniformly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-18 J. W. Scott , D. Park , X. Yuan , W. P. Halperin

We present data for energy dissipation factor (Q^{-1}) over a broad temperature range at various pressures of a torsion pendulum setup used to study 3He confined in a 98% open silica aerogel. Values for Q^{-1} above T_c are temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Zhelev , R. G. Bennett , E. N. Smith , J. Pollanen , W. P. Halperin , J. M. Parpia

The temperature dependence of paramagnetic susceptibility of the superfluid ^{3}He-B in aerogel is found. Calculations have been performed for an arbitrary phase shift of s-wave scattering in the framework of BCS weak coupling theory and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Mineev , P. L. Krotkov

Electrical magnetoresistance and tunnel diode oscillator measurements were performed under external magnetic fields up to 41 T applied along the crystallographic b-axis (hard axis) of UTe$_2$ as a function of temperature and applied…

I report theoretical analysis and predictions for the equilibrium phases of superfluid 3He infused into a low-density, homogeneous uniaxial aerogel. Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory for a class of equal-spin-pairing (ESP) states in a medium with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 J. A. Sauls

In this article, we give a comprehensive review of recent progress in research on symmetry-protected topological superfluids and topological crystalline superconductors, and their physical consequences such as helical and chiral Majorana…

We present the first theoretical calculation of the pressure-temperature-field phase diagram for the vortex phases of rotating superfluid $^3$He-B. Based on a strong-coupling extension of the Ginzburg-Landau theory that accounts for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-11 Robert C. Regan , J. J. Wiman , J. A. Sauls

We have examined superfluid properties of $^4$He confined to a nano-porous Gelsil glass that has nanopores 2.5 nm in diameter. The pressure-temperature phase diagram was determined by torsional oscillator, heat capacity and pressure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiya Shirahama , Keiichi Yamamoto , Yoshiyuki Shibayama

We provide topological classification of possible phases with the symmetry of the planar phase of superfluid $^3$He. Compared to the B-phase (class DIII in classification of Altland and Zirnbauer), it has an additional symmetry, which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-16 Yuriy Makhlin , Mikhail Silaev , G. E. Volovik

Measurements of superfluid $^3$He in 98% aerogel demonstrate the existence of a metastable \emph{A}-like phase and a stable \emph{B}-like phase. It has been suggested that the relative stability of these two phases is controlled by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-24 J. Pollanen , J. P. Davis , B. Reddy , K. R. Shirer , H. Choi , W. P. Halperin

We study the phase distribution and its dynamics in spin-orbit coupled two component ultracold Bosons for finite size system. Using an inhomogeneous meanfield analysis we demonstrate how phase distribution evolves as we tune the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-27 Anirban Dutta , Saptarshi Mandal

A rich variety of Fermi systems condense by forming bound pairs, including high temperature [1] and heavy fermion [2] superconductors, Sr2RuO4 [3], cold atomic gases [4], and superfluid 3He [5]. Some of these form exotic quantum states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-28 J. Pollanen , J. I. A. Li , C. A. Collett , W. J. Gannon , W. P. Halperin , J. A. Sauls

We theoretically investigate the superfluid phase transition of helium-3 under nanoscale confinement of one spatial dimension realized in recent experiments. Instead of the 3x3 complex matrix order parameter found in the three-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-06 Canon Sun , Adil Attar , Igor Boettcher

We explore superfluidity for $^4$He confined in a porous glass which has nanopores of 2.5 nm in diameter, at pressures up to 5 MPa. With increasing pressure, the superfluidity is drastically suppressed, and the superfluid transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yamamoto , H. Nakashima , Y. Shibayama , K. Shirahama