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Viscosity of highly polarized very dilute He-3-He-4 mixtures
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B
  • H Akimoto
  • JS Xia
  • ED Adams
  • D Candela
  • WJ Mullin
  • NS Sullivan
Publication Date
2002
Abstract

We present vibrating - wire viscosity measurements on a very dilute 3He-4He mixture (X3 = 150 ppm) in fields up to 14.8 T and temperatures down to 3 mK. The 3He spin polarization is greater than 99% for the highest field and lowest temperature used. In these conditions, the s-wave scattering rate decreases due to a lack of quasiparticles with the minority spin state. This enhances all transport coefficients including the viscosity. At the lowest temperature, the hydrodynamic damping of the viscometer in a 14.8 T field was more than 10 times larger than in low fields. This indicates a many-fold increase in the mixture viscosity due to spin polarization.

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Published version located at http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789812777805/9789812777805_0051.html
Pages
3117-3122
Citation Information
H Akimoto, JS Xia, ED Adams, D Candela, et al.. "Viscosity of highly polarized very dilute He-3-He-4 mixtures" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS B Vol. 16 Iss. 20-22 (2002)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william_mullin/62/