CMT123

Helium-three in Aerogel

• Author(s): W. P. Halperin and J. A. Sauls
• Address: Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
• Date: August 26, 2004
• Journal: Submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics Colloquium Series
• Abstract: Liquid ³He confined in silica aerogel provides us with a unique system to study the effects of quenched disorder on the properties of a strongly correlated quantum liquid. The superfluid phases display interplay between disorder and complex symmetry-breaking.

• Comment: 10 pages with 12 figures

• Eprint: [PDF] [arXiv]

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