Thermodynamic potential for superfluid 3He in aerogel

Sarosh Ali, Liangsheng Zhang, J. A. Sauls

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Abstract

We present a free energy functional for superfluid 3He in the presence of homogeneously distributed impurity disorder which extends the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional to all temperatures. We use the new free energy functional to calculate the thermodynamic potential, entropy, heat capacity and density of states for the B-phase of superfluid 3He in homogeneous, isotropic aerogel.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)233-242
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Low Temperature Physics
Volume162
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2011

Funding

This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant DMR-0805277.

Keywords

  • Aerogel
  • Gapless superfluid
  • Superfluid He
  • Thermodynamics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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