Elementary excitations in solid and liquid He-4 at the melting pressure.

Todoshchenko, I. A. and Alles, H. and Junes, H. J. and Manninen, M. S. and Parshin, A. Y. and Tsepelin, Victor (2008) Elementary excitations in solid and liquid He-4 at the melting pressure. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 150 (3-4). pp. 258-266. ISSN 0022-2291

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Abstract

Recent discovery of a nonclassical rotational inertia (NCRI) in solid He-4 below 0.2 K by Kim and Chan has revived great interest in the problem of supersolidity and initiated intensive study on the properties of solid He-4. A direct proof that the onset of NCRI corresponds to the supersolid transition would be the observation of a corresponding drop of the entropy of solid He-4 below the transition temperature. We have measured the melting pressure of ultrapure He-4 in the temperature range from 0.01 to 0.45 K with several single crystals grown at different pressures and with the accuracy of 0.5 mu bar. In addition, supplementary measurements of the pressure in liquid He-4 at constant volume have been performed, which allowed us to eliminate the contribution of the temperature-dependent properties of the pressure gauge from the measured melting pressure data. With the correction to the temperature-dependent sensitivity of the pressure gauge, the variation of the melting pressure of He-4 below 320 mK obeys the pure T-4 law due to phonons with the accuracy of 0.5 mu bar, and no sign of the transition is seen (Todoshchenko et al. in JETP Lett. 85:454, 2007). This sets the upper limit of similar to 5 center dot 10(-8) R for a possible excess entropy in high-quality He-4 crystals below 320 mK. At higher temperatures the contribution from rotons in the superfluid He-4 has been observed. The thermal expansion coefficient of the superfluid He-4 has been measured in the range from 0.01 to 0.7 K with the accuracy of similar to 10(-7) 1/K, or by two orders of magnitude better than in previous measurements. The roton contributions to the melting pressure and to the pressure in liquid at a constant volume are consistent and yield the value of 6.8 K for the roton gap, which is very close to the values obtained with other methods. As no contribution due to weakly interacting vacancies to the melting pressure of He-4 has been observed, the lower limit of about 5.5 K for their activation energy can be set.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of Low Temperature Physics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? quantum solidssupersolidsexcitations in quantum systemshe-4heliumcrystalsgeneral materials scienceatomic and molecular physics, and opticscondensed matter physicsmaterials science(all)qc physics ??
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23517
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03 Feb 2009 09:18
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