Adsorbed 3He: Heat Capacity at Low Temperatures

Heat capacity of adsorbed Helium-3 at ultra-low temperatures

Boundary magnetism in liquid 3He at very low temperatures

The low-temperature magnetic susceptibility of normal and superfluid 3He confined between mylar foils spaced 40 p apart shows a large and field-dependent enhancement over the bulk Fermi liquid magnitude. The excess susceptibility disappears when the liquid is doped with 0.5 7; 4He. The reason for the excess is unknown. We also studied the proton resonance of the mylar substrate and obtained spi...

Interactions of adsorbed CO₂ on water ice at low temperatures.

We present a computational study into the adsorption properties of CO2 on amorphous and crystalline water surfaces under astrophysically relevant conditions. Water and carbon dioxide are two of the most dominant species in the icy mantles of interstellar dust grains and a thorough understanding of their solid phase interactions at low temperatures is crucial for understanding the structural evo...

Heat capacity of 3He in aerogel.

The heat capacity of pure 3He in low density aerogel is measured at 22.5 bars. The superfluid response is simultaneously monitored with a torsional oscillator. A slightly rounded heat capacity peak, 65 microK in width, is observed at the 3He-aerogel superfluid transition, T(ca). Subtracting the bulk 3He contribution, the heat capacity shows a Fermi-liquid form above T(ca). We can fit the heat c...

Response of liquid 3He at finite temperatures.

The random-phase-approximation ~RPA! dynamical response of liquid He at finite temperatures has been calculated using an effective density-dependent atom-atom interaction. The interaction contains a zero-range part of Skyrme type, supplemented by a weighted density approximation to account for short-range correlations, and a long-range effective interaction of Lennard-Jones type. The calculated...