Spin diffusion in liquid 3He confined in planar aerogel
V. V. Dmitriev+, M. S. Kutuzov*, L. A. Melnikovsky+, B. D. Slavov+×, A. A. Soldatov+×, A. N. Yudin+
+P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia
*Metallurg Engineering Ltd., 11415 Tallinn, Estonia
×Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia
Abstract
We report the results of theoretical and experimental
investigation of spin diffusion in the normal phase of liquid 3He
confined in planar aerogel: a material consisting of nanostrands which
are almost parallel to a specific plane and randomly oriented in this
plane. Using spin echo technique we measure the spin diffusion
coefficients in the directions perpendicular and parallel to the plane.
We see good agreement between the experiment and the theory.