Related papers: Dynamics of liquid 4He in Vycor
We carry out a theoretical investigation of overpressurized superfluid phases of He-4 by means of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations. As a function of density, we study structural and superfluid properties, and estimate the energy of the…
Torsional oscillator experiments involving solid $^{4}$He confined in the nanoscale pores of Vycor glass showed anomalous frequency changes at temperatures below 200 mK. These were initially attributed to decoupling of some of the helium's…
The temperature and pressure dependence of the partial density of phonon states of iron atoms in superconducting Fe1.01Se was studied by 57Fe nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS). The high energy resolution allows for a detailed observation…
We have measured the mass diffusion coefficient D of 3He in superfluid 4He at temperatures lower than were previously possible. The experimental technique utilizes scintillation light produced when neutron react with 3He nuclei, and allows…
A self-consistent model of the superfluid (SF) state of a Bose liquid with strong interaction between bosons is considered, in which at T=0, along with a weak single-particle Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), there exists an intensive pair…
We calculate the dynamic structure function of two-dimensional liquid $^4$He at zero temperature employing a quantitative multi-particle fluctuations approach up to infinite order. We observe a behavior that is qualitatively similar to the…
We present neutron scattering measurements of the momentum distribution of liquid ${^3}$He-${^4}$He mixtures. The experiments were performed at wavevectors $Q$, 26 $\leq$ $Q$ $\leq$ 29 {\AA$^{-1}$}, on the MARI time-of-flight spectrometer…
We study the hydrodynamics of quantum 4He crystal oscillations in a superfluid liquid with involving the dynamics of atomically rough surfaces. It is shown that, due to enhancement of the kinetic growth coefficient as the temperature…
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…
Kim and Chan have recently observed Non-Classical Rotational Inertia (NCRI) for solid $^4$He in Vycor glass, gold film, and bulk. Their low $T$ value of the superfluid fraction, $\rho_{s}/\rho\approx0.015$, is consistent with what is known…
We report neutron scattering measurements of the phonons in bcc solid 4He. In general, only 3 accoustic phonon branches should exist in a monoatomic cubic crystal. In addition to these phonon branches, we found a new ''optic-like'' mode…
Superfluidity, liquid flow without friction, is familiar in helium. The first evidence for "supersolidity", its analogue in quantum solids, came from recent torsional oscillator (TO) measurements involving 4-He. At temperatures below 200…
We present a novel density functional for liquid 4He, properly accounting for the static response function and the phonon-roton dispersion in the uniform liquid. The functional is used to study both structural and dynamical properties of…
We report high-resolution neutron Compton scattering measurements of liquid $^4$He under saturated vapor pressure. There is excellent agreement between the observed scattering and ab initio predictions of its lineshape. Quantum Monte Carlo…
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…
We compute several ground state properties and the dynamical structure factor of a 0-temperature system of Bosons interacting with the 2D screened Coulomb (2D-SC) potential. We resort to the exact shadow path integral ground state (SPIGS)…
We report on the optical excitation spectra in Sr$_2$VO$_4$. The phonon modes are assigned and their evolution with temperature is discussed in the frame of the different phase transitions crossed upon cooling. Besides the expected…
We study the dynamic structure factor $S(\vec{q},\omega)$ of superfluid 4He at zero temperature in the roton momentum region and beyond using field-theoretical Green's function techniques. We start from the Gavoret-Nozi\`{e}res two-particle…
A new description is presented for the roton part of the energy spectrum of supe rfluid ${^4}$He. It is based on the assumption that in addition to the Feynman density excitations, there exist localized modes which describe vortex-core…
The elementary excitations in superfluid liquid He-4 named rotons have an unusual dispersion curve. The energy is an approximately quadratic function of (p-p_0), the difference between the magnitude of the momentum p and a characteristic…