Anisotropic Phases of Superfluid He-3 in Compressed Aerogel

作者:Li J I A*; Zimmerman A M; Pollanen J; Collett C A; Halperin W P
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2015, 114(10): 105302.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.105302

摘要

It has been shown that the relative stabilities of various superfluid states of He-3 can be influenced by anisotropy in a silica aerogel framework. We prepared a suite of aerogel samples compressed up to 30% for which we performed pulsed NMR on He-3 imbibed within the aerogel. We identified A and B phases and determined their magnetic field-temperature phase diagrams as a function of strain. From these results, we infer that the B phase is distorted by negative strain forming an anisotropic superfluid state more stable than the A phase.