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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Volume 150, Issue 1-2, Pages 1-11Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-007-9516-5
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helium films; pulsed laser deposition; superfluidity; alkali metal
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We have developed a cryogenic pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system to deposit lithium films onto a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) at 4 K. Adsorption isotherms of He-4 on lithium were measured in the temperature range between 1.42 K and 2.5 K. The isotherms are qualitatively different from isotherms on strong substrates such as gold and weak substrates such as cesium. There is no evidence of the formation of solid-like layers of helium, and the helium coverage is approximately linear in the pressure over a wide range. By measuring the low coverage slope of the isotherms, the binding energy of helium to lithium was found to be approximately -13.6 K. For lithium substrates less than approximately 100 layers thick, the chemical potential at which the superfluid transition was observed was surprisingly sensitive to the details of lithium deposition.
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