U.S.-Netherlands Cooperative Research: Quantum Coherence inFluids and Solids at Ultralow Temperatures

该奖项支持佛罗里达大学Microkelvin研究实验室的Mark W.Meisel教授与荷兰莱顿大学Kamerlingh Onnes实验室的Georgio Frossati教授和超低温小组的其他人在低温物理和低温工程研究方面进行合作。拟议的物理学研究将集中在与超流氦-3以及正常液体和超流氦-3的高度极化形式的相界和极化研究相关的几个难题上。他们在低温工程方面的努力将解决在连续和脉冲超高磁场中实现超低温的问题，以及热交换器的设计，这些换热器可以将纯氦-3/氦-4混合物冷却到迄今无法达到的低温。从本质上讲，实验超低温物理领域在物理学和低温工程领域都需要仔细的关注和创新的思维。拟议的国际合作将两个领先的超低温研究小组联系在一起，这两个小组都有兴趣追求解决该领域基本问题所需的科学和技术。在一起，他们将处于更强大的地位，可以设计新的方法来解决需要新技术来推动最先进的问题。

This award supports Professor Mark W. Meisel of the Microkelvin Research Laboratory at the University of Florida to collaborate in low temperature physics and cryogenic engineering research with Professor Georgio Frossati and others of the Ultralow Temperature Group at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. The proposed research in physics will focus on several difficult problems associated with the study of phase boundaries and polarization in superfluid Helium-3 and highly polarized forms of normal liquid and superfluid helium-3. Their efforts in cryogenic engineering will address the problems of achieving ultralow temperature in continuous and pulsed ultra-high magnetic fields and on the design of heat exchangers which are tuned to cool pure Helium-3/Helium-4 mixtures to heretofore unattainable low temperatures. The field of experimental ultralow temperature physics, by its nature, requires careful attention and innovative thought in both physics and cryogenic engineering. The proposed international collaboration links two leading ultra-low temperature research groups which are interested in pursuing both the science and the technology necessary to attack fundamental problems in this field. Together, they will be in an even stronger position to design new approaches to questions that require novel techniques to advance the state-of-the-art.