Neutron reflectometry from surface of liquid 3He/4He film on silicon wafer

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As it was predicted theoretically by Andreev at zero temperature for dilute 3He in 4He mixtures, 3He atoms will form a 2D Fermi liquid at liquid helium surface. Direct experimental observation of a 3He nano-layer on the surface of a weak 3He/4He mixture has not been achieved, and today no information is available about the distribution of 3He near the helium surface. In our earlier experiments (RB1010049 and RB1120146) we have shown that at low temperature reflectometry data demonstrate accumulation of 3He atoms near liquid helium surface. However we failed to analyse the data analytically by comparison with neutron reflection model because of significant optical distortions caused by liquid He meniscus. Here we propose experiment which will allow us to eliminate meniscus effect. In this set-up we will produce ~ 1000A superfluid helium film on atomically smooth silicon wafer.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87776553
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87776553
Provenance
Creator Dr Oleg Kirichek; Professor Sean Langridge; Dr Timothy Charlton; Dr Christy Kinane; Professor Peter McClintock
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-10-12T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-17T14:45:26Z