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Acoustic Faraday Effect in Superfluid 3He

Author(s): Y. Lee, T. Haard, J. A. Sauls, and W. Halperin
Comments: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Helsinki, Finland; 2 pages with 2 figures
Journal: Physica B 280, 106 (2000) [DOI]

Abstract:
We have observed that the direction of linearly polarized transverse sound in superfluid 3He-B rotates in a magnetic field. This acoustic Faraday effect proves the existence of a propagating transverse sound mode in 3He and provides clear evidence for spontaneously broken relative spin-orbit symmetry.

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