Ion Mobility in Superfluid 3He

Positive Ion Mobility in Normal and Superfluid 3He*

The mobility of positive ions has been measured in the normal and superfluid 3 , , phases of He at several pressures. Below 100 m K the normal phase mobthty increases logarithmically with decreasing temperature down to the superfluid transition temperature T~; it shows an anomalous fump near 100 inK. A t low temperatures the drift velocity is nonlinear for electric fields exceeding 30 V/cm. In ...

Negative Ion Motion in Normal and Superfluid 3He*

We report the first measurements of negative ion motion in the superfluid phases of 3He and in the normal phase below 17 inK. Refrigeration was achieved with nuclear demagnetization of copper and we used a pulsed NMR platinum powder thermometer immersed in the liquid. In the A phase the longitudinal resonance frequency provided an additional high-resolution thermometer. In the normal phase we o...

RECENT EXPERIMENTS IN SUPERFLUID 3He

Vortices in rotating superfluid 3He.

In this review we first present an introduction to 3He and to the ROTA collaboration under which most of the knowledge on vortices in superfluid 3He has been obtained. In the physics part, we start from the exceptional properties of helium at millikelvin temperatures. The dilemma of rotating superfluids is presented. In 4He and in 3He-B the problem is solved by nucleating an array of singular v...

Superfluid transition in superfluid 3He in radially compressed aerogel

The Spin Supercurrent and Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons similar to an atomic BEC was observed in 1984 in superfluid He-B. Recently we discovered 2 new types of BEC in superfluid He in deformed aerogel. The orbital part of the wave function orients along the deformation and changes the magnon-magnon interaction. In some cases it forms a magnon trap. We can do it for He-A by uniaxially co...