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Title: Strong coupling corrections to the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superfluid {sup 3}He

Journal Article · · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 (United States)

In the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superfluid {sup 3}He, the free energy is expressed as an expansion of invariants of a complex order parameter. Strong coupling effects, which increase with increasing pressure, are embodied in the set of coefficients of these order-parameter invariants [A. J. Leggett, Rev. Mod. Phys. 47, 331 (1975); E. V. Thuneberg, Phys. Rev. B 36, 3583 (1987); J. Low Temp. Phys. 122, 657 (2001)]. Experiments can be used to determine four independent combinations of the coefficients of the five fourth-order invariants. This leaves the phenomenological description of the thermodynamics near T{sub c} incomplete. Theoretical understanding of these coefficients is also quite limited. We analyze our measurements of the magnetic susceptibility and the NMR frequency shift in the B phase which refine the four experimental inputs to the phenomenological theory. We propose a model based on existing experiments, combined with calculations by Sauls and Serene [Phys. Rev. B 24, 183 (1981)] of the pressure dependence of these coefficients, in order to determine all five fourth-order terms. This model leads us to a better understanding of the thermodynamics of superfluid {sup 3}He in its various states. We discuss the surface tension of bulk superfluid {sup 3}He and predictions for novel states of the superfluid such as those that are stabilized by elastic scattering of quasiparticles from a highly porous silica aerogel.

OSTI ID:
20957837
Journal Information:
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 75, Issue 17; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.174503; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1098-0121
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English