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does anybody know something about magnetic behaviour of helium-3 superfluid, i.e. under T=2,7mK and beneath its gas pressure?
If I'm not mistaken, the calculations prior to Lee, Richrdson and Osheroff's work in the 70s said that He-3 should be antiferromagnetic below about 2mK. I think in their original paper L, R and O showed that this is not true - but they may have changed this later. There were a few things that weren't so well understood immediately after the original measurement. One of them was the magnetic ordering. I would look into subsequent papers by L, R and O.armandowww said:does anybody know something about magnetic behaviour of helium-3 superfluid, i.e. under T=2,7mK and beneath its gas pressure?
Helium-3 superfluidity is a state of matter that occurs when liquid helium-3 is cooled to extremely low temperatures. At these temperatures, the helium-3 atoms lose their individual identities and behave collectively as a single quantum entity with unique properties.
Normal helium, also known as helium-4, becomes a superfluid at a lower temperature than helium-3. Additionally, helium-3 superfluidity displays unique properties such as spontaneous flow without resistance, the ability to climb up and out of containers, and the ability to pass through solid objects.
Helium-3 becomes a superfluid as a result of a quantum mechanical phenomenon called Bose-Einstein condensation. This occurs when a large number of particles, in this case helium-3 atoms, enter the same quantum state and behave collectively as a single entity.
Helium-3 superfluidity exhibits unique magnetic behavior due to the pairing of helium-3 atoms in the superfluid state. The paired atoms have opposite spins, which creates a net spin of zero and results in a lack of magnetic response in the superfluid state.
Helium-3 superfluidity has potential applications in fields such as cryogenics, quantum computing, and medical imaging. It has also been used in research to study quantum phenomena and superconductivity. However, the limited availability of helium-3 makes these applications challenging to implement on a larger scale.