Strong-coupling effects in superfluid {sup 3}He in aerogel
- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
Effects of impurity scatterings on the strong-coupling (SC) contribution, stabilizing the ABM (axial) pairing state, to the quartic term of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy of superfluid {sup 3}He are theoretically studied to examine recent observations suggestive of an anomalously small SC effect in superfluid {sup 3}He in aerogels. To study the SC corrections, two approaches are used. One is based on a perturbation in the short-range repulsive interaction, and the other is a phenomenological approach used previously for the bulk liquid by Sauls and Serene [Phys. Rev. B 24, 183 (1981)]. It is found that the impurity scattering favors the BW pairing state and shrinks the region of the ABM pairing state in the T-P phase diagram. In the phenomenological approach, the resulting shrinkage of the ABM region is especially substantial and, if assuming an anisotropy over a large scale in aerogel, leads to justifying the phase diagrams determined experimentally.
- OSTI ID:
- 21055153
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 76, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.104512; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1098-0121
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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