Quantum Phase Transition of 4He Confined in Nanoporous Media
- Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522 (Japan)
4He confined in nanoporous media is an excellent model system for studying a strongly correlated Bose liquid and solid in a confinement potential. We studied superfluidity and liquid-solid phase transition of 4He confined in a porous Gelsil glass that had nanopores 2.5 nm in diameter. The obtained pressure-temperature phase diagram is fairly unprecedented: the superfluid transition temperature approaches zero at 3.4 MPa, and the freezing pressure is enhanced by approximately 1 MPa from the bulk one. These features indicate that the confined 4He undergoes a superfluid-nonsuperfluid-solid quantum phase transition at zero temperature. The nonsuperfluid phase may be a localized Bose-condensed state in which global phase coherence is destroyed by a strong correlation between the 4He atoms or by a random potential.
- OSTI ID:
- 20884828
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 850, Issue 1; Conference: LT24: 24. international conference on low temperature physics, Orlando, FL (United States), 10-17 Aug 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2354698; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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