Ultrasonic measurements as a probe of3He/4He phase separation in aerogels |
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Authors: | Mark Paetkau John Beamish |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics, University of Alberta, T6G 2J1 Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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Abstract: | We have used ultrasonic velocity and attenuation measurements to study the phase separation of3He/4He mixtures confined in a silica aerogel with a porosity of 87%. We used both shear and longitudinal sound and varied the frequency between 4 and 20 MHz. The superfluid transition is accompanied by a velocity increase due to decoupling and by a critical attenuation peak which increases with frequency. At the phase separation there are changes in the velocity and attenuation, and hysteresis on thermal cycling. We show some recent results and discuss how they relate to the phase diagram inferred from torsional oscillator and heat capacity measurements on helium mixtures in aerogels. |
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