Crystalline Order in SuperfluidFilms
- 22 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 98 (4), 045301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.045301
Abstract
We predict an inhomogeneous phase of superfluid 3He films in which translational symmetry is spontaneously broken in the plane of the film. This phase is energetically favored over a range of film thicknesses, $D_{c_2}(T)
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