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Critical behavior of superfluid {sup 4}He in aerogel

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)

We report Monte Carlo studies of the critical behavior of superfluid {sup 4}He in the presence of quenched disorder with long-range fractal correlations. Modeling aerogel as an incipient percolating cluster in 3D and weakening the bonds at the fractal sites, {ital XY}-model simulations demonstrate an increase in the superfluid density exponent {zeta} from 0.67{plus_minus}0.005 for the pure case to an apparent value of 0.722{plus_minus}0.005 in the presence of the fractal disorder, provided that the helium correlation length does not exceed the fractal correlation length.

OSTI ID:
122981
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 75; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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