Anomalous Suppression of Superfluidity in He4 Confined in a Nanoporous Glass

K. Yamamoto, H. Nakashima, Y. Shibayama, and K. Shirahama
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 075302 – Published 13 August 2004

Abstract

We explore the superfluidity of He4 confined in a porous glass, which has nanopores of 2.5 nm in diameter, at pressures up to 5 MPa. With increasing pressure, the superfluidity is drastically suppressed, and the superfluid transition temperature approaches 0 K at some critical pressure, Pc3.4   MPa. The feature suggests that the extreme confinement of He4 into the nanopores induces a quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a nonsuperfluid at 0 K and at Pc.

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  • Received 29 September 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.075302

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

K. Yamamoto, H. Nakashima, Y. Shibayama, and K. Shirahama*

  • Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan

  • *Electronic address: keiya@phys.keio.ac.jp

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Vol. 93, Iss. 7 — 13 August 2004

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