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Evidence for a Spatially Modulated Superfluid Phase of He 3 under Confinement

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

L.V. Levitin
B. Yager
L. Sumner
B. Cowan
A.J. Casey
J. Saunders
N. Zhelev
R.G. Bennett
J.M. Parpia

Abstract

In superfluid He3-B confined in a slab geometry, domain walls between regions of different order parameter orientation are predicted to be energetically stable. Formation of the spatially modulated superfluid stripe phase has been proposed. We confined He3 in a 1.1 μm high microfluidic cavity and cooled it into the B phase at low pressure, where the stripe phase is predicted. We measured the surface-induced order parameter distortion with NMR, sensitive to the formation of domains. The results rule out the stripe phase, but are consistent with 2D modulated superfluid order. © 2019 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Volume

122

Issue

8

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062258915&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevLett.122.085301&partnerID=40&md5=7c1509ab4cd9763de423261d9255f3d2

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.085301

Group (Lab)

Jeevak Parpia Group

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