Specific heat of disordered superfluid 3He.
Specific heat of disordered superfluid 3He.
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无序超流体 3He 的比热。
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
W. Halperin
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作者:
H. Choi;K. Yawata;T. Haard;J. Davis;G. Gervais;N. Mulders;P. Sharma;J. Sauls;W. Halperin
The specific heat of superfluid 3He, disordered by a silica aerogel, is found to have a sharp discontinuity marking the thermodynamic transition to superfluidity at a temperature reduced from that of bulk 3He. The magnitude of the discontinuity is also suppressed. This disorder effect can be understood from the Ginzburg-Landau theory which takes into account elastic quasiparticle scattering suppressing both the transition temperature and the amplitude of the order parameter. We infer that the limiting temperature dependence of the specific heat is linear at low temperatures in the disordered superfluid state, consistent with predictions of gapless excitations everywhere on the Fermi surface.