N. Mulders Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, 223 Sharp Laboratory, Newark, Delaware 19716 (Received 21 December 1998) Liquid 3He in 98%-porous aerogel simultaneously possesses properties of a disordered p-wave superfluid and an elastic solid. We have observed two sound modes of superfluid 3He in aerogel. The first (fast) sound is a compression wave, and the second (sl...

We present a finite temperature calculation of the transverse spin-diffusion coefficient, D⊥, in a dilute degenerate Fermi gas in the presence of a small external magnetic field, H. While the longitudinal diffusion coefficient displays the conventional low-temperature Fermi-liquid behavior, D‖ ∝ T−2, the corresponding results for D⊥ show three separate regimes: (a) D⊥ ∼ H−2 for T ≪ H; (b) D⊥ ∼ ...

Within a phenomenological approach possible forms of the order parameter of the superfluid phases of 3He in a vicinity of the transition temperature are discussed. Effect of aerogel is described by a random tensor field interacting with the orbital part of the order parameter. With respect to their interaction with the random tensor field a group of ”robust” order parameters which can maintain ...

We study the effects of nuclear polarization M on the liquid-gas equilibrium phase diagram of 3He, in situations where the saturating vapour pressure increases or decreases as a function of M, and where a metamagnetic instability may occur in the liquid phase. Numerical predictions are given within the frame of a phenomenological model with parameters fitted to reproduce accurately the saturati...

in this paper, at first we have formulated the lowest order constrained variational method for the relativistic case of an interacting fermion system at finite temperature. then we have used this formalism to calculate some thermodynamic properties of liquid in the relativistic regime. the results show that the difference between total energies of relativistic and non-relativistic cases of liqu...

The dependence of some thermodynamic properties of spin-polarized liquid 3He such as velocity of sound, adiabatic index, isentropic compressibility and temperature on the spin polarization has been investigated along different isentropic paths. The Lennard-Jones potential has been used in our calculations. It has been found that for higher values of entropy, the spin polarization has greate...

2014 A tripod field is used as model for a general anisotropic fluid. The elastic energy density is expanded as invariant polynomial in the components of the contortion tensor. Surface energy terms are derived from compatibility conditions for the tripod field. The model is applied to cholesteric liquid crystals of large and small pitch, to 3He-A, and to biaxial nematic liquid crystals. J. Phys...

A mean field approach is used to investigate the liquid-gas phase transition in 3He. The method provides a reasonable prédiction for the vapour pressure in the whole région of températures. The prédictions for the critical point and the température dependence of the liquid and gas densities along the coexistence line are also discussed. J. Physique 48 (1987) 911-914 JUIN 1987, Classification Ph...