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Stable pairing states of superfluid 3He in aerogel are examined in the case with a global uniaxial anisotropy which may be created by applying an uniaxial stress to the aerogel. Due to such a global anisotropy, the stability region of an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazushi Aoyama , Ryusuke Ikeda

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

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 theoretical calculations of the normal-state spin diffusion coefficient of 3He in aerogel, including both elastic and inelastic scattering of 3He quasiparticles, and compare these results with experimental data for 3He in 98%…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-02-13 J. A. Sauls , Yu. M. Bunkov , E. Collin , H. Godfrin , P. Sharma

The equilibrium superfluid phase of 3He impregnated into high-porosity silica aerogels appears to be a non-equal-spin-pairing state in zero field at all pressures, which is generally assumed to be the Balian-Werthamer (BW) phase modified by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-12 Priya Sharma , J. A. Sauls

We have designed an experiment to study the role of global anisotropic quasiparticle scattering on the dirty aerogel superfluid 3He system. We observe significant regions of two stable phases at temperatures below the superfluid transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Davis , H. Choi , J. Pollanen , W. P. Halperin

We have investigated the NMR properties of dilute 3He impurities in solid 4He contained in a torsional oscillator (TO) by the simultaneous measurement of the NMR and the torsional oscillator response of the so-called supersolid 4He. From…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Ryo Toda , Patryk Gumann , Kei Kosaka , Masatomo Kanemoto , Wakana Onoe , Yutaka Sasaki

In recent work it was shown that new anisotropic p-wave states of superfluid 3He can be stabilized within high porosity silica aerogel under uniform positive strain [1]. In contrast, the equilibrium phase in an unstrained aerogel, is the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-19 J. I. A. Li , A. M. Zimmerman , J. Pollanen , C. A. Collett , W. J. Gannon , W. P. Halperin

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

The lattice dynamics of solid 4He has been explored using pulsed NMR methods to study the motion of 3He impurities in the temperature range where experiments have revealed anomalies attributed to superflow or unexpected viscoelastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 S. S. Kim , C. Huan , L. Yin , J. S. Xia , D. Candela , N. S. Sullivan

Role of inhomogeneous perturbations of nematic aerogel on the form of the order parameter emerging at the transition of liquid $^3$He in the superfluid state is considered. It is shown that a region of stability of the polar distorted ABM…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-10 I. A. Fomin

It is shown that in the polar phase of superfluid 3 He, stabilized by nematic aerogel, at the condition of specular reflection of quasi-particles from the strands of aerogel the temperature dependence of the gap in the spectrum of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-24 I. A. Fomin

Nematic aerogel (nAG) supports so-called polar phase in liquid 3He. The experiment [Dmitriev et al, JETP Lett. 112, 780 (2020)] showed that the onset of polar phase inside the nAG is accompanied by emergence of a sound wave with frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-12 A. M. Bratkovsky

Here, we present the results of vibrating wire experiments in pure $^3$He (without $^4$He coverage) in nematic aerogel. We investigated the dependence of splitting of the superfluid transition temperature of $^3$He in aerogel on magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-02 V. V. Dmitriev , M. S. Kutuzov , D. V. Petrova , A. A. Soldatov , A. N. Yudin

The superfluid state in bulk liquid $^3$He is realized in the form of A or B phases. Uniaxially anisotropic aerogel (nafen) stabilizes transition from the normal to the polar superfluid state which on further cooling transitions to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 V. P. Mineev

Due to its broken spin and orbit rotation symmetries, superfluid $^3$He plays a unique role for testing rotational quantum properties on a macroscopic scale. In this system the orbital momentum forms textures that provide an effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Chen , Yu. M. Bunkov , H. Godfrin , R. Schanen , F. Scheffler

Random textures of the orbital part of the order parameter of superfluid 3He-A in aerogel are analyzed theoretically in the Ginzburg and Landau region both in the presence and in the absence of a global anisotropy. Correlation functions of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-18 E. V. Surovtsev , I. A. Fomin

The influence of confinement on the topological phases of superfluid 3He is studied using the torsional pendulum method. We focus on the phase transition between the chiral A-phase and the time-reversal-invariant B-phase, motivated by the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-02 N. Zhelev , T. S. Abhilash , E. N. Smith , R. G. Bennett , X. Rojas , L. V. Levitin , J. Saunders , J. M. Parpia

Long-range magnetic interactions in highly magnetised liquids (laser-polarised 3He-4He dilute mixtures at 1 K in our experiment) introduce a significant non-linear and non-local contribution to the evolution of nuclear magnetisation that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Emmanuel Baudin , Michael E. Hayden , Geneviève Tastevin , Pierre-Jean Nacher

Glass states of superfluid A-like phase of 3He in aerogel induced by random orientations of aerogel strands are investigated theoretically and experimentally. In anisotropic aerogel with stretching deformation two glass phases are observed.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 V. V. Dmitriev , D. A. Krasnikhin , N. Mulders , A. A. Senin , G. E. Volovik , A. N. Yudin