Superfluidity and phase separation in helium films
Superfluidity and phase separation in helium films
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氦膜中的超流动性和相分离
DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.19.2488
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
D. Nelson
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文献类型:
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作者:
A. Berker;D. Nelson
A vectorial generalization of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model is proposed to describe superfluidity in films of /sup 3/He-/sup 4/He mixtures, and is solved by an approximate renormalization scheme due to Migdal. In contrast to bulk mixtures, the line of superfluid transitions is connected to the phase-separation curve by a critical end point. The universal jump of the superfluid density, present in the pure /sup 4/He system, is preserved with increasing /sup 3/He concentration x until the critical end point occurs at x < or approx. = 0.12. At smaller x, phase separation causes a kink in the superfluid density versus temperature curve. No tricritical point occurs for any value of the model parameters, although an effectively tricritical phase diagram is obtained in a certain limit. Lines of constant superfluid density bunch up near the effective tricritical point, as predicted by tricritical scaling theory. This treatment also describes superfluidity in pure /sup 4/He films in the presence of two-dimensional liquid-gas phase separation. In addition we calculate the specific heat of the pure /sup 4/He system, using the recursion relations of Kosterlitz. This specific heat has a broad maximum above the superfluid transition temperature, corresponding to a gradual dissociation of vortex pairs withmore » increasing temperature.« less