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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 175, Issue 1-2, Pages 17-30Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-013-0924-4
Keywords
Superfluid He-3; Confined quantum liquids; Phase transitions
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1106315]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1106315] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Predictions and discoveries of new phases of superfluid He-3 in confined geometries, as well as novel topological excitations confined to surfaces and edges of near a bounding surface of He-3, are driving the fields of superfluid He-3 infused into porous media, as well as the fabrication of sub-micron to nano-scale devices for controlled studies of quantum fluids. In this report we consider superfluid He-3 confined in a periodic geometry, specifically a two-dimensional lattice of square, sub-micron-scale boundaries (posts) with translational invariance in the third dimension. The equilibrium phase(s) are inhomogeneous and depend on the microscopic boundary conditions imposed by a periodic array of posts. We present results for the order parameter and phase diagram based on strong pair breaking at the boundaries. The ordered phases are obtained by numerically minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional. We report results for the weak-coupling limit, appropriate at ambient pressure, as a function of temperature T, lattice spacing L, and post edge dimension, d. For all d in which a superfluid transition occurs, we find a transition from the normal state to a periodic, inhomogeneous polar phase with for bulk superfluid He-3. For fixed lattice spacing, L, there is a critical post dimension, d (c) , above which only the periodic polar phase is stable. For d < d (c) we find a second, low-temperature phase onsetting at from the polar phase to a periodic B-like phase. The low temperature phase is inhomogeneous, anisotropic and preserves time-reversal symmetry, but unlike the bulk B-phase has only point symmetry.
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