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SUBMITTER: Zhelev N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5052659 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhelev N N Reichl M M Abhilash T S TS Smith E N EN Nguyen K X KX Mueller E J EJ Parpia J M JM
Nature communications 20160927
In bulk superfluid <sup>3</sup>He at zero magnetic field, two phases emerge with the B-phase stable everywhere except at high pressures and temperatures, where the A-phase is favoured. Aerogels with nanostructure smaller than the superfluid coherence length are the only means to introduce disorder into the superfluid. Here we use a torsion pendulum to study <sup>3</sup>He confined in an extremely anisotropic, nematically ordered aerogel consisting of ∼10 nm-thick alumina strands, spaced by ∼100 ...[more]